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 BeachThis is one of my favorite of the HPL revision stories. Many of his revision tales were people just handing Lovecraft an outline and he would actually do most of the writing. But supposedly, his wife Sonia Greene, actually did write most of this. The story is so eerie. It reminds me of a Junji Ito style Lovecraftian tale.
There are no official illustrations for this creep, though he does sound a lot like Dagon in the description.
I'm really happy with my design for this one so I didn't change much. I wanted to, again, tighten up the line work, fix the coloring/rendering and most of all redo the eye. The way I used to draw eyes wasn't great but it really bothers me on creatures where the eye is the focal point.
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