Ghoul

Ghoul is a monster. It first appeared in the Arkham Horror board game.

Ghoul

Edition(s)	Arkham Horror x3
Movement	Normal
Awareness	-3
Home Dimension	Hexagon The Abyss The Underworld
Abilities	Ambush
Combat Stats Horror Toughness Combat Rating Damage   Rating Damage +0 1 1 -1 1
Flavor Text Most of the bodies, while roughly bipedal, had a forward slumping, and vaguely canine cast. The texture of the majority was a kind of unpleasant rubberiness.

Mythos Source

Ghouls first appear in the story Pickman's Model (1927), written by H.P. Lovecraft, where the flavor text is excerpted from.