Thing That Walked The Earth # 7 (illustrated by Anna Hybsier)

In the time of the Monk and the Fox, there were many Things That Walked The Earth that “we rarely see today. There were all manner of entities, beings, wraiths, and creatures, both kind and malevolent.”

This is one of the Things That Walked The Earth.

What is this creature? Is he some sort of demon or a creature from Japanese mythology?

It appears in the P. Craig Russell adaptation of The Dream Hunters, in issue # 1 on page 22, in panel 1.