FUNGUS HUMAN

FUNGUS HUMAN

"126- Castaways on island eat unknown vegetation and become strangely transformed."
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

"Yet, as we drew near to it, I became gradually aware that here the vile fungus, which had driven us from the ship, was growing riot. In places it rose into horrible, fantastic mounds, which seemed almost to quiver, as with a quiet life, when the wind blew across them."

It was on the thumb of her right hand, that the growth first showed. It was only a small circular spot, much like a little grey mole. My god! how the fear leapt to my heart when she showed me the place. We cleansed it, between us, washing it with carbolic and water. In the morning of the following day she showed her hand to me again. The grey warty thing had returned."

"Abruptly, as I stared, the thought came to me that the thing had a grotesque resemblance to the figure of a distorted human creature. Even as the fancy flashed into my brain, there was a slight, sickening of noise of tearing, and I saw that one of the branch-like arms was detaching itself from the surrounding grey masses and coming towards me.
William Hope Hodgson, The Voice In the Night

CARNIVOROUS FISH

CARNIVOROUS FISH
"Once in a while he paused to watch a carnivorous fish catch a fishing bird, which it lured to the water by shewing its tempting scales in the sun, and grasped by the beak with its enormous mouth as the winged hunter sought to dart down upon it."
H.P. Lovecraft, Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath

ZOOG

ZOOG
"In the tunnels of that twisted wood, whose low prodigious oaks twine groping boughs and shine dim with the phosphorescence of strange fungi, dwell the furtive and secretive zoogs;"

"Most of them live in burrows, but some inhabit the trunks of the great trees; and although they live mostly on fungi it is muttered that they have also a slight taste for meat, either physical or spiritual, for certainly many dreamers have entered that wood who have not come out."

"It was the zoogs, for one sees their weird eyes long before one can discern their small, slippery brown outlines."
H.P. Lovecraft, Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath

FUNGUS BEAST

FUNGUS BEAST
"I seemed to be looking down from an immense height upon a twilit grotto, knee-deep with filth, where a white-bearded daemon swineherd drove about with his staff a flock of fungous, flabby beasts whose appearance filled me with unutterable loathing."
"No, no, I tell you, I am not that daemon swineherd in the twilit grotto! It was not Edward Norrys’ fat face on that flabby, fungous thing! "
H.P. Lovecraft, The Rats In the Walls

HUMAN MOUNTAIN

HUMAN MOUNTAIN
"70-Tone of extreme phantasy; Man transformed to island or mountain."
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

Y'M-BHI

Y'M-BHI

"These, Gll’-Hthaa-Ynn explained, were what men called the y’m-bhi—organisms which had died, but which had been mechanically reanimated for industrial purposes by means of atomic energy and thought-power."

"Those which most repelled Zamacona were those whose mutilations were greatest; for some were wholly headless, while others had suffered singular and seemingly capricious subtractions, distortions, transpositions, and graftings in various places. The Spaniard could not account for this condition, but Gll’-Hthaa-Ynn made it clear that these were slaves who had been used for the amusement of the people in some of the vast arenas."

H.P. Lovecraft & Zealia Bishop, The Mound

DEFORMED TWIN

DEFORMED TWIN
"133-Man has miniature shapeless Siamese Twin-exhib. in circus-twin surgically detached-disappears-does hideous things with malign life of his own."
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

GNORRI

GNORRI
"After a strange vision this man published a tale of Carter’s vanishing, in which he hinted that the lost one now reigned as king on the opal throne of Ilek-Vad, that fabulous town of turrets atop the hollow cliffs of glass overlooking the twilight sea wherein the bearded and finny Gnorri build their singular labyrinths."
H.P. Lovecraft & E.Hoffman Price, Through the Gates Of the Silver Key

SENTIENT ROCK

SENTIENT ROCK
"214-Talking rock of Africa-immemorially ancient oracle in desolate jungle ruins that speaks with a voice out of the aeons."
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK (NYARLATHOTEP)

THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK (NYARLATHOTEP)
"The skull was in a very peculiar state—stained yellow, and with a charred aperture in the top as if some powerful acid had eaten through the solid bone."

"Those living near the dreaded church had sworn that the thing in the steeple had taken advantage of the street-lamps’ absence and gone down into the body of the church, flopping and bumping around in a viscous, altogether dreadful way."

'“What am I afraid of? Is it not an avatar of Nyarlathotep, who in antique and shadowy Khem even took the form of man?"'

'“I see it—coming here—hell-wind—titan blur—black wings—Yog-Sothoth save me—the three-lobed burning eye. . . .”'
H.P. Lovecraft, The Haunter Of the Dark