MARTIN'S BEACH HORROR

MARTIN'S BEACH HORROR

"The object was some fifty feet in length, of roughly cylindrical shape, and about ten feet in diameter. It was unmistakably a gilled fish in its major affiliations; but with certain curious modifications such as rudimentary forelegs and six-toed feet in place of pectoral fins, which prompted the widest speculation. Its extraordinary mouth, its thick and scaly hide, and its single, deep-set eye were wonders scarcely less remarkable than its colossal dimensions;" 

H.P. Lovecraft & Sonia H. Greene, The Horror At Martin's Beach

FISHER FROM THE OUTSIDE

FISHERS FROM THE OUTSIDE

"The ancient Fishers from Outside—Were there not tales the high-priest told, Of how they found the worlds of old, And took what pelf their fancy spied?" 

H.P. Lovecraft, The Outpost

"One glimpse of the repulsive thing with its one leg and one glaring Cyclopean eye and hideous, hooked, fang-lined beak-"

Lin Carter & H.P. Lovecraft, Fishers From the Outiside

NEW FUNDRAISER

 

Hey everyone! While searching through drawings for last month's Many Lands Mutual Aid fundraiser I stumbled on the originals for Scott Nicolay's long out of print novella *after* published through Dim Shores. 

So I'm going to raffle off the lot as a new fundraiser for the Sameer Project. 

"A donations based aid initiative, led by Palestinians in the diaspora, working to supply emergency shelter and aid to displaced families in Gaza."

Each raffle ticket will cost $6 (a little more in Europe & the rest of the world) and will enter you in a chance to win this combo!

Included will be Sam's very last copy of *after*, three full color postcards of the interior art, the original inked pages for the cover art & all three interior illustrations and the original pencil drawings for two of the interior illustrations (sadly the pencils for the cover & the third interior are lost to time & my negligence). The raffle will end Friday May 9th, and I'll use a random number generator to choose the winner. 

Get a raffle ticket below or in the you-blogsoth store!

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1 RAFFLE TICKET FOR A CHANCE TO WIN:

• The last remaining copy of Scott Nicolay's *after*.
• Full color postcards of interior art.
• Original inked drawings of cover & interior illustrations.
• Original pencil drawings of 2 interior illustrations.

Shipping incl.

USA $6.00 USD Canada $8.00 USD World $10.00 USD

DECATON

DECATON

"There are exactly 100 decatons, the lowest order of officials found in Nirvana, These creatures appear as 10-tentacled spheres on stumpy legs and are overseers of the physical welfare of the base modrons. One deeaton is assigned to each sector of Nirvana, while the remaining 36 serve with the hextons commanding the armed forces of the plane."

Gary Gygax, Monster Manual II

OCULON

OCULON

"The oculon is an enchanted monster created by a high-level magic-user to act as an assistant or guardian. The process of creating one is long and quite involved, but the resulting being is fairly powerful because of the many special skills it has. An oculon is humanoid in shape, though only vaguely so, and is 4 feet tall at the shoulder. Instead of a human head, the oculon has a flexible neck about 3 feet in length with a single large eye at the end. The neck is 2” in diameter and the eye is 4” across."

"The body of an oculon is light grey in color, and slightly glossy. The cornea of the eye is dark grey, and the pupil of the eye is black."

Roger E. Moore, Dragon Magazine #53

ROPER

ROPER

"Ropers inhabit subterranean caverns. They prey upon all forms of creatures, but humans are their favorite form of food. These monsters can stand upright in order to resemble a pillar or stalagmite or flatten themselves to full length upon the floor so as to look like nothing more than a hump. The roper has six strands of strong, sticky rope-like excretion which it can shoot from 2'-5'."

"This yellowish gray monster appears to be a mass of foul, festering corruption. The roper is cigar-shaped, about 9' long, with a diameter of some 3'."

Gary Gygax, Monster Manual I

DEATH SHEEP

DEATH SHEEP

"These deadly sheep roam the verdant hillsides where they live, ravaging anything in their paths. From a distance, they seem to be nothing more than wild, somewhat dirty sheep. Up close, however, the sheep can be seen to have an evil nature. Their large mouths are filled with long, sharp black teeth that drip vile ichor. These sheep attack any living thing that they can find, fearing nothing and fighting to the death."

Dragon Magazine #156

SKULLRIDER

SKULLRIDER

"A skullrider is a spider-like creature whose eight segmented legs grow out of a body the size and shape of a human skull. Its shiny exoskeleton is the approximate color and texture of human bone, supporting the illusion. Vicious mandibles are hidden inside the "jawbone" of the skull; these mandibles are retractable, as are the creature's eight short legs. The bony exoskeleton prevents body heat from emanating, thus making the skullrider 'invisible' to infravision. A skullrider with mandibles and legs retracted is thus 90% indistinguishable from a regular human skull."

Jonathan Richards, Dragon Magazine #198

MISSHAPEN FAUN

MISSHAPEN FAUN 

"Incubi and succubae howled praise to Hecate, and headless moon-calves bleated to the Magna Mater. Goats leaped to the sound of thin accursed flutes, and aegipans chased endlessly after misshapen fauns over rocks twisted like swollen toads." 

H.P. Lovecraft, The Horror At Red Hook

"These beings are the offspring of the classical Greek demigod Faunus, which resembled him in their semihuman form with the legs, hooves and horns of a goat but the torso and head of a human male. They are likened to the Satyrs and are guardians of the wild life of the woods and fields they inhabit."

Carol Rose, Giants, Monsters and Dragons

MONSTROUS FROG

MONSTROUS FROG

"There, squatting in the midst of the tumbled bedding from that long-abandoned bed, sat a monstrous, leathery-skinned creature that was neither frog nor man, one gorged with food, with blood still slavering from its batrachian jaws and upon its webbed fingers - a monstrous entity that had strong, powerfully long arms, grown from its bestial body like those of a frog, and tapering off into a man's hands, save for the webbing between the fingers..." 

H.P. Lovecraft & August Derleth, The Shuttered Room