MONSTROUS BAT

MONSTROUS BAT 

"She affirm'd, and her good neighbours likewise, that it had been borne to her, and took oath that she did not know by what manner it had come upon her, for it was neither Beast nor Man but like to a monstrous Bat with human face. It made no sound but look'd at all and sundry with baleful eyes. There were those who swore that it bore a frightful resemblance to the Face of one long dead, one Richard Bellingham or Bollinhan who is affirm'd to have vanished utterly after consort with Daemons in the country of New Dunnich. The horrible Beast-Man was examined by the Court of Azzizes and the which then burnt by Order of the High-Sherif on the 5th of June in the year 1788."

H.P. Lovecraft & August Derleth, The Lurker At the Threshold

SILENT STRUTTER

SILENT STRUTTER

"In an instant every moving entity was electrified; and forming at once into a ceremonial procession, the nightmare horde slithered away in quest of the sound—goat, satyr, and aegipan, incubus, succuba, and lemur, twisted toad and shapeless elemental, dog-faced howler and silent strutter in darkness—all led by the abominable naked phosphorescent thing that had squatted on the carved golden throne, and that now strode insolently bearing in its arms the glassy-eyed corpse of the corpulent old man."

H.P. Lovecraft, The Horror At Red Hook

THINGS THAT DEVOUR AND DISSOLVE

THINGS THAT DEVOUR AND DISSOLVE

"You think those floundering things wiped out the servants? Fool, they are harmless! But the servants are gone, aren’t they?" "Things are hunting me now—the things that devour and dissolve—but I know how to elude them."

"My pets are not pretty, for they come out of places where aesthetic standards are—very different. Disintegration is quite painless, I assure you—but I want you to see them. I almost saw them, but I knew how to stop."

H.P. Lovecraft, From Beyond

SAND-DWELLER

SAND-DWELLER

"Then out of one of the caves came a Sand-Dweller—rough-skinned, large-eyed, large-eared, with a horrible, distorted resemblance to the koala bear facially, though his body had an appearance of emaciation. He shambled toward me, manifestly eager."

H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth, The Gable Window

SENTIENT POLYHEDRON

SENTIENT POLYHEDRON

"Two of the less irrelevantly moving things - a rather large congeries of iridescent, prolately spheroidal bubbles and a very much smaller polyhedron of unknown colours and rapidly shifting surface angles - seemed to take notice of him and follow him about or float ahead as he changed position among the titan prisms, labyrinths, cube-and-plane clusters and quasi-buildings"

H.P. Lovecraft, Dreams In the Witch-House