"Lovecraft's ""The Hound"

In the coffin lay an amulet of curious & exotic design, which had apparently been worn around the sleeper's neck. It was the oddly conventionalised figure of a crouching winged hound or sphinx with a semi-canine face, & was exquisitely carved in antique Oriental fashion from a small piece of green jade. The expression on its features was repellent in the extreme, savouring at once of death, bestiality, & malevolence. Around the base was an inscription in characters which neither St. John nor I could identify; & on the bottom, like a maker's seal, was graven a grotesque & formidable skull. -H.P. Lovecraft, The Hound Stolen from the resting place of an infamous Necromancer by two jaded grave robbers, The Hound Amulet spells doom for all who possess it! Hand cast in solid resin & comes ready to wear or hang on a red silk cord. Item measures 4.5 x 2 Lovecraft's The Hound