IPSSIS
“And today was a good day to take a form he liked.”
"He leaned back against a blade of grass, forming optic lenses and protruding plasm over them.”
“His favorite shape was a rhomboid.”
Margaret St.Clair, Shore Leave
Friday, February 23, 2018
Thursday, February 22, 2018
CELLAR DWELLER
CELLAR DWELLER
“Now, as the ferrets reached it, it seemed to well out, to puff up into a great stringy mass, an exuberance of reddish, blackish hair."
”For a moment Leon thought he saw two tiny blue points, like eyes, glowing in the thing’s blackish heart. Then a long coil of hair, spider-leg thin, shot out at him.”
Margaret St.Clair, Graveyard Shift
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
PLUNP
PLUNP
"The plunp are the oddest of the native peoples of Venus."
“Be that as it may, the plunp are not prepossessing. They have
“Be that as it may, the plunp are not prepossessing. They have
exceedingly slick grayish skins, long shallow jaws with ferocious teeth, and
fierce yellow eyes.”
“Then the plunp began to rotate slowly in front of Brian, its tiwggy, slick-skinned arms outstretched expectantly.”
fierce yellow eyes.”
“Then the plunp began to rotate slowly in front of Brian, its tiwggy, slick-skinned arms outstretched expectantly.”
Margaret St.Clair, Thirsty God
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
VENUSIAN CERBERUS
“Having the flesh sucked from one’s bones by a cerberus‘ corrosive membranes was such a nasty way to pass out of the viewing plate." ”The cerberus was a lifeform from the the deep Venusian swamps.” “The trouble was that the cerberus, in its uncanny, ameboid way, moved extremely fast.”
Margaret St.Clair, Idris’ Pig
Monday, February 19, 2018
SLURB
SLURB
"The creature was literally as wide as it was tall. Perhaps it was the fact that it had a series of extra joints along the shoulder girdle and down the upper arm, so that its arms moved with the seemingly boneless flexibility of snakes. Perhaps it was the color of its sleek
integument, which was a dirty off-white. Perhaps...Anyhow, the slurb was nonhumanoid." “If he hit the slurb on the knee-for some reason they were very sensitive about their knees-it counted fifteen.”
Margaret St.Clair, The Altruists
MORE MARGARET ST. CLAIR!!!
As you've probably guessed I fell in love with Margaret St. Clair's work after Scott and I covered Horrer Howce for Stories From the Borderland. Well, I'll not only have one zine dedicated to her work....but two! This week I'll be posting five brand new monsters inspired by her work and then
Horrer Kumpendyum I will go on sale
FRIDAY MARCH 2ND 11AM EST! These have NOT been available anywhere else and will be limited to 35!