"As I fled from that accursed castle along the bog’s edge I heard a new sound; common, yet unlike any I had heard before at Kilderry. The stagnant waters, lately quite devoid of animal life, now teemed with a horde of slimy enormous frogs which piped shrilly and incessantly in tones strangely out of keeping with their size. They glistened bloated and green in the moonbeams, and seemed to gaze up at the fount of light. I followed the gaze of one very fat and ugly frog, and saw the second of the things which drove my senses away."
H.P. Lovecraft, The Moon-Bog
The slimy enormous frog from The Moon-Bog is never fully described but hinted at. It's "fat and ugly" and the seeing it and it seeing the narrator "drove [his] senses away". I didn't stray from my original design, which was a frog with humanoid facial features & hands but fixed the linework & anatomy. I did choose to omit the "green" part because there are so many monstrous frogs & toads in HPL's work that I needed to switch it up a little.
There aren't too many illustrations of this story and the original publication in Weird Tales (June, 1926) featured an illustration (by Ed Whitham) of the ascension in the story but not the curious frogs.
Tomorrow's creature is another weirdo from the Commonplace Book!
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