Here’s an update on my previous post, “Cthulhu in the Library?”. A new photo has surfaced. The ironwork Cthulhu-a-like I had spotted in a 1965 book of b&w art-photographs of the Brown campus was not inside but rather outside the John Carter Brown Library.

Previous photo:

Newly found photo showing exterior context:

It’s not quite a lion, because of the dog-like teeth. The paw is also dog-like rather than cat-like. More like a supernatural hound, then? Possibly evoking Cerebrus, the multi-headed hound “that guards the gates of the Underworld”?