"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."
The Horror At Red Hook is one of my favorite HPL stories. Not for it's abysmal racism & xenophobia but for the monster parade at the end. All sorts of gross, weird creeps come out in the crescendo and this freak is one of them.
While I like my original design for this one, those legs are preposterous, even for a "misshapen" faun. So, I redrew him with new legs but most of the rest is the same.
The Horror At Red Hook was first published in the January 1927 issue of Weird Tales with an illustration by G. O. Olinick. Olinick's illustration may not be how I pictured the parade of monsters but I give them credit for drawing some Grade A weirdos.
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