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The word ghast may either be a recent back-formation
Back-formation

In etymology, back-formation refers to the process of creating a new lexeme by removing actual or supposed affixes. The resulting neologism is called a back-formation, a term coined by James Murray in 1897....
, arising from either the word "ghastly", which came from Anglo-Saxon
Old English language

Old English is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written in parts of what are now England and south-eastern Scotland between the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century....
 gastlic = "like a ghost
Ghost

File:Henry Fuseli- Hamlet and his father's Ghost.JPGA ghost is popularly held to be the disembodied spirit or soul of a death person. Popularly described as insubstantial and partly transparent, ghosts are reported to haunt particular List of reportedly haunted locations that they were associated with in life or at time of death....
"; or the word "aghast", from the Middle English
Middle English

Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman conquest of England of 1066 and about 1470, when the #Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the introduction of the printing press into England by William...
 gasten to frighten. Or alternatively Lovecraft may have derived it directly from the Anglo-Saxon form of the word ghost: gast.

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The word ghast may either be a recent back-formation
Back-formation

In etymology, back-formation refers to the process of creating a new lexeme by removing actual or supposed affixes. The resulting neologism is called a back-formation, a term coined by James Murray in 1897....
, arising from either the word "ghastly", which came from Anglo-Saxon
Old English language

Old English is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written in parts of what are now England and south-eastern Scotland between the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century....
 gastlic = "like a ghost
Ghost

File:Henry Fuseli- Hamlet and his father's Ghost.JPGA ghost is popularly held to be the disembodied spirit or soul of a death person. Popularly described as insubstantial and partly transparent, ghosts are reported to haunt particular List of reportedly haunted locations that they were associated with in life or at time of death....
"; or the word "aghast", from the Middle English
Middle English

Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman conquest of England of 1066 and about 1470, when the #Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the introduction of the printing press into England by William...
 gasten to frighten. Or alternatively Lovecraft may have derived it directly from the Anglo-Saxon form of the word ghost: gast.

Ghast may also refer to:

  • Ghasts
    Underworld (Dreamlands)

    The underworld is a fictional location in the Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft. It is described in detail in Lovecraft's novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath ....
     are a race of creatures in H. P. Lovecraft
    H. P. Lovecraft

    Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an United States author of horror fiction, fantasy fiction, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction....
    's Dreamlands
    Dreamlands

    The Dreamlands is a fictional location in the Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft. It is also the setting for a number of pastiches written by other authors....
    . This appears to be the earliest use of the term, from which the uses below seem to derive.
  • Ghast is a black metal band from South Wales.
  • Ghast
    Demons Three

    Abnegazar, Rath and Ghast are three fictional characters in the DC Universe who are collectively known as the Demons Three. They first appeared in Justice League #10 ....
     is the third member of a demonic trio (along with Abnegazar and Rath) who were featured sporadically in the original Justice League of America
    Justice League

    The Justice League, also called the Justice League of America or JLA, is a fictional DC Comics List of superhero teams and groups....
     comic book series.
  • Ghasts are a stronger breed of ghoul
    Ghoul (Dungeons & Dragons)

    For the generic mythological creature, see Ghoul.In the Dungeons and Dragons roleplaying game, ghouls are monstrous, Undead humans who reek of carrion....
     in the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game
    Role-playing game

    A role-playing game is a game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters. Participants determine the actions of their characters based on their characterization, and the actions succeed or fail according to a role-playing game system of rules and guidelines....
    .
  • In the game RuneScape
    RuneScape

    RuneScape is a Java -based MMORPG operated by Jagex Recognised by Guiness World Records as the world's most popular free MMORPG, RuneScape has approximately fifteen million active Free-to-play and is a graphical game browser-based game with a large degree of 3d rendering....
    , Ghasts are evil spirits that rot food when the player is in the Mort-Myre Swamp. If no food is with the player, they draw "energy" (hit points) from the player.
  • Ghasts are a type of un-dead foe which appear in the Stilshrine of Miriam in the 2006 Square Enix game Final Fantasy XII
    Final Fantasy XII

    is a single-player console role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2. Released in 2006, it is the twelfth installment in the Final Fantasy series....
  • Ghasts are weak creatures, similar to ghosts, in Joseph Delaney's series of books, The Wardstone Chronicles
    The Wardstone Chronicles

    The Wardstone Chronicles are a series of books written by the author Joseph Delaney and published by Random House. The series is about a seventh son of a seventh son, Thomas J....
    .
  • Ghasts are an attack-oriented infantry unit in the computer game Shattered Galaxy
    Shattered Galaxy

    Shattered Galaxy is a massively multiplayer online real-time strategy that was released in 2001 by Nexon Inc., now known as KRU Interactive, after an extensive Beta Version period....
    .
  • Ghasts are dark-sided undead
    Undead

    Undead is a collective name for fictional or legendary beings that are deceased yet behave as if alive. Undead may be incorporeal, such as ghosts, or Body, such as vampires and zombies....
     units from the Myth
    Myth (computer game)

    Myth is a series of real-time tactics computer games. The games are:*Myth: The Fallen Lords*Myth II: Soulblighter*'Myth III: The Wolf Age...
     series. They are the "premature" stage of the Wights, and attack with slashes containing the Wight paralyzing, illness-spreading pus.
  • Creatures known as "cliff-ghasts" appear in the His Dark Materials
    His Dark Materials

    His Dark Materials is a trilogy of fantasy literature by Philip Pullman comprising Northern Lights , The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass ....
     trilogy, and although they are described as "swooping", they are implied to be some sort of corporeal creatures and not a type of spirit. A seemingly more ghostly "night-ghast" is mentioned in passing in the trilogy's first installment, The Northern Lights
    Northern Lights (novel)

    Northern Lights, known as The Golden Compass across North America, is the first novel in England novelist Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy....
    .