| “ | You think those floundering things wiped out the servants? Fool, they are harmless! But the servants are gone, aren’t they? [...] Things are hunting me now—the things that devour and dissolve—but I know how to elude them. [...] My pets are not pretty, for they come out of places where aesthetic standards are—very different. Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you—but I want you to see them. I almost saw them, but I knew how to stop. | „ | |
| ~ Crawford Tillinghast , HPL: "From Beyond" |
The Things that Devour and Dissolve are fictional entities created by the late American author Howard Phillips Lovecraft for his short horror story "From Beyond".
In the role-playing game Call of Cthulhu, they are referred to as Terrors from Beyond or Astral Parasites. (EXP: Malleus Monstrorum)