"They's prints in the rud, Mis' Corey - great raound prints as big as barrel-heads, all sunk dawon deep like a elephant had ben along, only they's a sight more nor four feet could make!"
"Bigger’n a barn...all made o’ squirmin’ ropes...hull thing sort o’ shaped like a hen’s egg bigger’n anything, with dozens o’ legs like hogsheads that haff shut up when they step...nothin’ solid abaout it—all like jelly, an’ made o’ sep’rit wrigglin’ ropes pushed clost together...great bulgin’ eyes all over it...ten or twenty maouths or trunks a-stickin’ aout all along the sides, big as stovepipes, an’ all a-tossin’ an’ openin’ an’ shuttin’...all grey, with kinder blue or purple rings... an’ Gawd in heaven—that haff face on top!...”
" 'Oh, oh, my Gawd, that haff face - that haff face on top of it... that face with the red eyes an' crinkly albino hair, an' no chin, like the Whateleys... It was a octopus, centipede, spider kind o' thing, but they was a haff-shaped man's face on top of it, an' it looked like Wizard Whateley's, only it was yards an' yards acrost....' "
H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror
This is one that I've been wanting to tweak for some time but it's got so many details that I've always put it off for simpler redrawings. I finally did it and I'm way happier with the new version. The insectoid legs look more anatomically correct, the mouth isn't crooked anymore, the linework in general is more streamlined and the overall feel is better. I'm much happier with this one.
Unlike the vast majority of the creatures I've drawn for this blog, this monster's been illustrated many times.
The Dunwich Horror was first printed in the April 1929 edition of Weird Tales with an illustration by Hugh Rankin....ugh. I've expressed my distaste for his work on this blog before and I'll do it again. This is unintelligible scribbles. I do not like it.
Some of my favorites include Sam Heimer, Skinner (from his pop up book!), Joe Keinberger & Santiago Caruso.
Next week we continue this journey with an obscure weirdo from another of Lovecraft's most popular stories, Call Of Cthulhu!
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