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Billions of years ago, the Great Race of Yith were earth's dominant species. They built great cities with their advanced technology, and even learned how to travel through time by projecting their minds across the aeons into the bodies of others. In time, they saw their eventual extinction at the hands of the flying Polyps, and so transported themselves far into the future, to a time when the Polys no longer existed.
Brace yourself... this Mythos monster wasn't invented by H. P. Lovecraft! And it's from the 1960s!!!!
Cthonians are immense, squidlike subterranean worms that live for thousands of years. Although they can travel unseen under the earth, a chanting sound accompanies each one, which is often your only warning before it strikes...
No-Name >> No-Name(oldone) >> Hitsugaya
I Loooooooooove making key chains
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*Might delete this later :P
Also known as "The Beast" or "The Sphinx," The Faceless God is one of Nyarlathotep's masks. He takes the form of a sphinx with no face, only the endless void of the cosmos.
While some of Nyatlathotep's masks are designed to put people into false ease, or terrify them into madness, this one was a god worshipped by the ancient egyptians, and instrumental in forming their civilization. Legend has it that it returned in the fourteenth century, calling itself "The Beast," and inspiring its cult once more.
The name "Lloigor" originally came from an August Derleth story, and applied to a typical betentacled Elder God. The name was dropped until 1969, when Colin Wilson wrote "The Return of the Lloigor," and redefined the name.
The Lloigor are a species of alien energy beings from the Andromeda galaxy. They can possess people or take nearly any form, but most often prefer to appear as giant reptilian monstrosities - in fact, they are the source of many of our legends about dragons. But when given free reign, Lloigor are more monstrous than any dragon, and serve the will of the dreaded Ghatanathoa, spawn of Cthulhu.
"So at length Carter crawled through endless burrows with three helpful ghouls bearing the slate gravestone of Col. Nepemiah Derby, obit 1719, from the Charter Street Burying Ground in Salem. When they came again into open twilight they were in a forest of vast lichened monoliths reaching nearly as high as the eye could see and forming the modest gravestones of the Gugs. On the right of the hole out of which they wriggled, and seen through aisles of monoliths, was a stupendous vista of cyclopean round towers mounting up illimitable into the grey air of inner earth. This was the great city of the Gugs, whose doorways are thirty feet high. Ghouls come here often, for a buried Gug will feed a community for almost a year, and even with the added peril it is better to burrow for Gugs than to bother with the graves of men. Carter now understood the occasional titan bones he had felt beneath him in the vale of Pnoth."
-H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath"
The Crawling Chaos, the God of a Thousand Forms, Nyarlathotep is the most...personable... of the Great Old Ones. He has many names and many masks, some chaotic, some totally human, One of the shapes that straddles this line is "The Black Man." Don't take it as racism! The Black Man's skin isn't African, it's as dark as coal (this figure was apparently made by colorblind people), and his features do not match. He also has the feet of a goat, and appears often to worshippers - it's not an entirely human form liek the Pharoah or Mr. Skin.
Nyarlathotep actively enjoys serving and causing chaos, making him almost a Trickster or a devil character. He ultimately serves Azathoth, the greatest, oldest, and worst of the Outer Gods, but often Nyarlathotep's schemes seem to be entirely his own.
De mis primeras fotos... Enamorada de mi ciudad ° C A R T A G E N A ° tanta belleza que muchas veces olvidamos!
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Shot for my upcoming book of images inspired by 1920s pulp-horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.
Strobist Info: Vivitar 283 through home-made beauty dish camera left.
L >> Un-named >> Sasuke (oldone) .
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lol, I have more but I dont think Im gunna upload them. :P
An old drawing from 1985. Pulled from a highschool notebook. I understand that Zoth-Ommog was created by the writer Lin Carter. But I recall drawing this monster after reading a description of it in a Ramsey Campbell story. I think it was in a collection called Cold Print. I must go back and try to find that particular story. If anyone knows, leave a comment!
Lockdown rummage and found some old ambulance pictures!
Not too long ago but one forgets the vehicles so quickly!!
Some Renault ambulances here from a few years back!
They were the first we had in YAS to have ramps at the back.
At Middlewood Ambulance Station..
I work for Yorkshire Ambulance Service in and around the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire.
It’s a great job and I feel very honoured to be able to help people at their point of need.
Check out the website for all sorts of info re YAS and the work we do.
When you think of a Lovecraft monster as an amorphous blob of tentacles and eyes, you're probably thinking of a Shoggoth.
"It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter."
-At the Mountains of Madness
These things were created to be servitors of the Elder Things, and have a lot of brief mentions in Lovecraft's stories, most prominently appearing in At The Mountains Of Madness.
Hi. ^_^
So, tomorrow is already sunday.
So, my bag isn't a little near of ready. D=
So, I've discovered that a friend from high school is going too NY to, at the same time! =D
So, I'll come back with a Canon SLR! A quite simple one, but it's a good start! ^^X
Another old photo, from my middle school graduation trip. ^^x
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Enjoy your summer/ winter break! ^^/
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"Cursed the ground where dead thought live new and oddly bodied, and evil the mind that is held by no head. Happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes. For it is of old rumor that the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws; till out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores out to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl."-- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Festival"
One of H. P. Lovecraft's earliest "Mythos" stories was The Festival. Christmastime, an unnamed narrator went to visit the town of Kingsport, Massachusetts, to see their yuletide festivals. However, it turne dout that once every century, they celebrated something different. Something older. Their town leader, a strange man with a rubbery face, led the town in a dark, pagan ritual, where they danced to music played by a half-unseen, squirming, horrible thing. And then dark creatures (later identified as the Byakhee) flew in, and the villagers rode off on their leathery wings. Finally, the narrator realized that the town elder's face was a mask, and pulled it off to reveal the above quote - a horrible mass of worms masquerading as a man!
The Crawling One as represented in Arkham Horror is kind of a mixture of two of the monsters - the worm colony, and also the squirming thing in the shadows. "Something amorphously squatted far away from the light, piping noisomely on a flute". And there it is... the Crawling One, the Worm That Walks.
Lockdown rummage and found some old ambulance pictures!
Not too long ago but one forgets the vehicles so quickly!!
Some Renault ambulances here from a few years back!
They were the first we had in YAS to have ramps at the back.
At Middlewood Ambulance Station..
I work for Yorkshire Ambulance Service in and around the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire.
It’s a great job and I feel very honoured to be able to help people at their point of need.
Check out the website for all sorts of info re YAS and the work we do.
These strange creatures live in cities deep within the moon, and hold great influence throughout the cosmos. Do not let their froglike appearance fool you.
Far from the sunken city of R'yleh, there are some who would perform rites to awaken the Great Old One and bring endless madness to the world.
The dreaded spawn of Cthulhu, Ghatanothoa is so terrible that mearly the sight of it will shrivel mortal man into a mummified husk. Ghatanothoa is now imprisoned beneath a mountain, but his Lloigor servants still permeate the world, spreading the horrific influence of their master.
"We came upon a small, ruinous platform. On top of this were arrayed a group of Skinks and the larger and more ferocious warriors called Saurus. Sat in front of them on a golden carrying throne was a creature like a great, bloated toad. This I had not expected, though some Norsemen I had questioned back in the Old World had told me that such creatures existed and were indeed the priest and rulers of the Lizardmen. They were called the Slann..."
—Extract from "The Tale of Marco Colombo", circa. 1492 IC
"We came upon a small, ruinous platform. On top of this were arrayed a group of Skinks and the larger and more ferocious warriors called Saurus. Sat in front of them on a golden carrying throne was a creature like a great, bloated toad. This I had not expected, though some Norsemen I had questioned back in the Old World had told me that such creatures existed and were indeed the priest and rulers of the Lizardmen. They were called the Slann..."
—Extract from "The Tale of Marco Colombo", circa. 1492 IC
The Fungi from Yuggoth, the Whisperers In Darkness, Mi-Gos are some of the strangest non-elder god aliens in the Cthulhu Mythos.
Hailing from interstellar space, they are usually identified with Yuggoth (pluto), the furthest planet (and it IS a planet) in our system. Although they are technically fungi, they resemble insects, and are actually composed of a type of matter that does not exist on earth. Their wings help them fly through space, though they have some trouble in our atmosphere. These strange, faceless things like to extract human brains - they put the brains into jars, maintain their victims' consciousness, and then teach them the mysteries of the universe. Mi-Gos believe that this is charity.
(Unfortunately, the Mi-Go SHOULD be pinkish, but Arkham Horror wants them to be green, so a green light is what I used.)
"We came upon a small, ruinous platform. On top of this were arrayed a group of Skinks and the larger and more ferocious warriors called Saurus. Sat in front of them on a golden carrying throne was a creature like a great, bloated toad. This I had not expected, though some Norsemen I had questioned back in the Old World had told me that such creatures existed and were indeed the priest and rulers of the Lizardmen. They were called the Slann..."
—Extract from "The Tale of Marco Colombo", circa. 1492 IC
Running away from a mysterious winged cephalopod...
Read all about it on www.neoclassicspace.com/blogs/20090313/day-13-dont-hang-a....
"We came upon a small, ruinous platform. On top of this were arrayed a group of Skinks and the larger and more ferocious warriors called Saurus. Sat in front of them on a golden carrying throne was a creature like a great, bloated toad. This I had not expected, though some Norsemen I had questioned back in the Old World had told me that such creatures existed and were indeed the priest and rulers of the Lizardmen. They were called the Slann..."
—Extract from "The Tale of Marco Colombo", circa. 1492 IC
The Dark Young of Shub Nig... Shub-Nigg.... Shub-ni... Shub.... GAAAAAH! Okay, 'll just say it.
Shub-Niggurath.
See? It's not spelled like the bad word! Don't LOOK at me like that! Yes, I know H. P. Lovecraft had some ethnicity issues, but really, he had issues with everybody (including his own white folks), and I don't think this one was a direct slur. It's just an unfortunate name.
Anyway, this is the Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath. There are thousands of them. I'm going to quote Robert Bloch on this one:
"Something black in the road, something that wasn't a tree. Something big and black and ropy, just squatting there, waiting, with ropy arms squirming and reaching... It came crawling up the hillside... and it was the black thing of my dreams -- that black, ropy, slimy jelly tree-thing out of the woods. It crawled up and it flowed up on its hoofs and mouths and snaky arms."
-Robert Bloch, "Notebook Found in a Deserted House"