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The War Before Time

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Source of this image in particular is: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/526639750147077784/

H.P. Lovecraft
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Chaugnar Faugn, The Feeder

Artist's Description A redesign of the biggest(so far xP )failure as far as my Cthulhu mythos art go.:D This time it's a bit of Giger, a bit of Yag Kosha and finally a bit of my old design. The most remarkable would be the way it moves, instead of walking as a biped or tetrapod it uses its trunk as a crawling appendage. I picture it moving kind of like a chariot. With the trunk moving with snake motion in the front and the rest of the body dragging behind. What is uniqe for this take that this monster is sort of a mass of tumorous growth moulded in shape by exteral semi-transparent skin/armor. :) "Words could not adequately convey the repulsiveness of the thing. It was endowed with a trunk and great, uneven ears, and two enormous tusks protruded from the corners of its mouth. But it was not an elephant. Indeed, its resemblace to an actual elephant was, at best, sporadic and superficial, despite certain unmistakable points of similarity. The ears were webbed and tentacled, the trunk terminated in a huge flaring disk at least a foot in diameter, and the tusks, which intertwined and interlocked at the base of the statue, were as translucent as rock crystal." ~ Frank Belknap Long , The Horror From the Hills
Artist's Description A redesign of the biggest(so far xP )failure as far as my Cthulhu mythos art go.:D This time it's a bit of Giger, a bit of Yag Kosha and finally a bit of my old design. The most remarkable would be the way it moves, instead of walking as a biped or tetrapod it uses its trunk as a crawling appendage. I picture it moving kind of like a chariot. With the trunk moving with snake motion in the front and the rest of the body dragging behind. What is uniqe for this take that this monster is sort of a mass of tumorous growth moulded in shape by exteral semi-transparent skin/armor. :) "Words could not adequately convey the repulsiveness of the thing. It was endowed with a trunk and great, uneven ears, and two enormous tusks protruded from the corners of its mouth. But it was not an elephant. Indeed, its resemblace to an actual elephant was, at best, sporadic and superficial, despite certain unmistakable points of similarity. The ears were webbed and tentacled, the trunk terminated in a huge flaring disk at least a foot in diameter, and the tusks, which intertwined and interlocked at the base of the statue, were as translucent as rock crystal." ~ Frank Belknap Long , The Horror From the Hills

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Tsathoggua, The Sleeper of N'kai

Tsathoggua is one of the Great Old Ones in the shared Cthulhu Mythos, more info can be found on the <a href="https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tsathoggua">Lovecraft Wiki/</a>
Tsathoggua is one of the Great Old Ones in the shared Cthulhu Mythos, more info can be found on the <a href="https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tsathoggua">Lovecraft Wiki/</a>

H.P. Lovecraft
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Shub-Niggurath, The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young

Artist's Description: Shub-Niggurath, black goat of the woods. Done for the Cthulhu Playing Cards project I've been working on with Albino Dragon. This was one of the hardest in the set, and also one of the best known, but with a lot of variation in visual design. So I knew I had a little freedom to get weird here, and I wanted to focus on the goat aspect first, as much as possible, and went with a centipede body style for a little spice, and added some spider-like multiple arms and central maw to give it an insect-like vibe. And finished it off with a giant mass of tentacles leaking a blood-smoke power, I figured it would be cool if she has a power that flows into the forest canopy around her, and creates an artificial night wherever she goes. Check out the poker deck here: <a href="https://albinodragon.com/">albinodragon.com/</a> For more info, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shub-Niggurath">wiki page is here/</a>
Artist's Description: Shub-Niggurath, black goat of the woods. Done for the Cthulhu Playing Cards project I've been working on with Albino Dragon. This was one of the hardest in the set, and also one of the best known, but with a lot of variation in visual design. So I knew I had a little freedom to get weird here, and I wanted to focus on the goat aspect first, as much as possible, and went with a centipede body style for a little spice, and added some spider-like multiple arms and central maw to give it an insect-like vibe. And finished it off with a giant mass of tentacles leaking a blood-smoke power, I figured it would be cool if she has a power that flows into the forest canopy around her, and creates an artificial night wherever she goes. Check out the poker deck here: <a href="https://albinodragon.com/">albinodragon.com/</a> For more info, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shub-Niggurath">wiki page is here/</a>

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The King in Yellow

Artist's Description: A character from the Cthulhu Mythos. Book cover for Tuan Publishing Photoshop 7 Copyright James Ryman For more info on Hastur (The King in Yellow), the wiki page can <a href="https://kinginyellow.fandom.com/wiki/Hastur">be found here</a>.
Artist's Description: A character from the Cthulhu Mythos. Book cover for Tuan Publishing Photoshop 7 Copyright James Ryman For more info on Hastur (The King in Yellow), the wiki page can <a href="https://kinginyellow.fandom.com/wiki/Hastur">be found here</a>.

H.P. Lovecraft
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The Fungi of Yuggoth

Artist's Description: These fungal beings known better as the Mi-Go have been described in several mouldering manuscripts written by H. P. Lovecraft. They fly through the aether of space on incomprehensible wings, exploring the wonders of the universe and the strange life forms that inhabit it. Occasionally, they allow human beings to travel alongside them; though of course they are gracious enough to remove their companions' brains before doing so. <a href="https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Mi-go">Lovecraft wiki</a> - Mi-Go
Artist's Description: These fungal beings known better as the Mi-Go have been described in several mouldering manuscripts written by H. P. Lovecraft. They fly through the aether of space on incomprehensible wings, exploring the wonders of the universe and the strange life forms that inhabit it. Occasionally, they allow human beings to travel alongside them; though of course they are gracious enough to remove their companions' brains before doing so. <a href="https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Mi-go">Lovecraft wiki</a> - Mi-Go

H.P. Lovecraft
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Mi-Go Laboratory

Brief Mi-Go description. More info can be found on the <a href="https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Mi-go">Lovecraft wiki</a>. The Mi-go are an extraterrestrial species from the planet Yuggoth (implied to be the dwarf planet Pluto). They are described as winged creatures with large claws and heads covered in antennae. The Mi-go are a scientifically and technologically advanced race, having a particularly sophisticated grasp of surgical techniques and neuroscience. The Mi-go can transport humans from Earth to Yuggoth (and beyond) and back again by removing the subject's brain and placing it into a "brain cylinder", which can be attached to external devices to allow it to see, hear, and speak.
Brief Mi-Go description. More info can be found on the <a href="https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Mi-go">Lovecraft wiki</a>. The Mi-go are an extraterrestrial species from the planet Yuggoth (implied to be the dwarf planet Pluto). They are described as winged creatures with large claws and heads covered in antennae. The Mi-go are a scientifically and technologically advanced race, having a particularly sophisticated grasp of surgical techniques and neuroscience. The Mi-go can transport humans from Earth to Yuggoth (and beyond) and back again by removing the subject's brain and placing it into a "brain cylinder", which can be attached to external devices to allow it to see, hear, and speak.

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Yog-Sothoth, The Lurker at the Threshold

Artist's Description: Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread. —H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dunwich Horror"
Artist's Description: Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread. —H. P. Lovecraft, "The Dunwich Horror"

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The Colour Out of Space

Artist's Description: from the Lovecraft short story of the same name relatively quick piece, very frustrating though :D
Artist's Description: from the Lovecraft short story of the same name relatively quick piece, very frustrating though :D

H.P. Lovecraft
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The Dunwich Horror

L'Abomination de Dunwich ÉDITIONS SANS-DÉTOUR EXÉCUTION LOÏC MUZY 02/2017| CTHULHU
L'Abomination de Dunwich ÉDITIONS SANS-DÉTOUR EXÉCUTION LOÏC MUZY 02/2017| CTHULHU

H.P. Lovecraft
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The Dreamlands

Artist's Description: Based on the story by the same name by author H.P. Lovecraft
Artist's Description: Based on the story by the same name by author H.P. Lovecraft

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Dreamlands of Unknown Kadath

Artist's Description: "He had thought it for some moments a range of black mountains, but now he saw it was something more... ...now these hills were hills no more, for some greater hand than man's had touched them. Silent they squated atop the world like wolves or ghouls... their right hands were raised in menace against mankind... ...he saw arise from their shady caps great forms whose motions were no delusion... they were not any birds or bats known elsewhere on earth or in dreamland... " -from The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft Randolph Carter is on an epic quest in dream land! :dummy: So, yeah, I'm reading Lovecraft and Robert W. Chambers, one of his influences. That's right, friendly friends, reading is a mystical journey that can get you places fast than rocketships! :la:
Artist's Description: "He had thought it for some moments a range of black mountains, but now he saw it was something more... ...now these hills were hills no more, for some greater hand than man's had touched them. Silent they squated atop the world like wolves or ghouls... their right hands were raised in menace against mankind... ...he saw arise from their shady caps great forms whose motions were no delusion... they were not any birds or bats known elsewhere on earth or in dreamland... " -from The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft Randolph Carter is on an epic quest in dream land! :dummy: So, yeah, I'm reading Lovecraft and Robert W. Chambers, one of his influences. That's right, friendly friends, reading is a mystical journey that can get you places fast than rocketships! :la:

H.P. Lovecraft
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The Result Of Not Keeping a Close Eye on the Birds and the Bees

Artist's Description: The Byakhee are a fictional race of interstellar beings in the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft. Done in a medieval drawing style. Find more great illustrations at www.fantasy-map.net/
Artist's Description: The Byakhee are a fictional race of interstellar beings in the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft. Done in a medieval drawing style. Find more great illustrations at www.fantasy-map.net/

H.P. Lovecraft
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Sacrifice of a Hapless Maid

Artist's Description: A Deep One rises. Text again in Middle High German (as far as I could translate it): From the Dead Sea steps the monster to take the helples maid. Very horrible are the descendants.
Artist's Description: A Deep One rises. Text again in Middle High German (as far as I could translate it): From the Dead Sea steps the monster to take the helples maid. Very horrible are the descendants.

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Batman Harassing the Peasantry

Artist's Description: A Night-gaunt terrorises the country. German knights en route to the Holy Land chase it away. Text: -With dark wings the black devil spreads terror among the peasants. - Brave the German men chase away the fiend from field and town.
Artist's Description: A Night-gaunt terrorises the country. German knights en route to the Holy Land chase it away. Text: -With dark wings the black devil spreads terror among the peasants. - Brave the German men chase away the fiend from field and town.

H.P. Lovecraft
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Migratory Elder Thing Causes Trouble for Holidaying Germans

Artist's Description: Another medieval style drawing. Knights fighting....not a dragon. Text: Attack on an abominable thing that felt from the sky. With a lot of hewing and stabbing it was made dead.
Artist's Description: Another medieval style drawing. Knights fighting....not a dragon. Text: Attack on an abominable thing that felt from the sky. With a lot of hewing and stabbing it was made dead.

H.P. Lovecraft
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