Ghast

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"After a moment something about the size of a small horse hopped out into the grey twilight, and Carter turned sick at the aspect of that scabrous and unwholesome beast, whose face is so curiously human despite the absence of a nose, a forehead, and other important particulars." "...the ghasts, those repulsive beings which die in the light, and which live in the vaults of Zin and leap on long hind legs like kangaroos."
H.P. Lovecraft, Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath


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Flying Polyp

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[The flying polyps were a] horrible elder race of half polypous, utterly alien entities... They were only partly material and had the power of aerial motion, despite the absence of wings... [They exhibited] a monstrous plasticity and ... temporary lapses of visibility... [S]ingular whistling noises and colossal footprints made up of five circular toe marks seemed also to be associated with them.
—H. P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Out of Time"

The Flying Polyps were banished to their underground cities and trapped there by the Great Race of Yith.

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Nightgaunt

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“Shocking and uncouth black beings with smooth, oily, whale-like surfaces, unpleasant horns that curved inward toward each other, bat-wings whose beating made no sound, ugly prehensile paws, and barbed tails that lashed needlessly and disquietingly. And worst of all, they never spoke or laughed, and never smiled because they had no faces at all to smile with, but only a suggestive blankness where a face ought to be. All they ever did was clutch and fly and tickle; that was the way of night-gaunts.”
—H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

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Gug

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"It was a paw, fully two feet and a half across, and equipped with formidable talons. After it came another paw, and after that a great black-furred arm to which both of the paws were attached by short forearms. Then two pink eyes shone, and the head of the awakened gug sentry, large as a barrel, wabbled into view. The eyes jutted two inches from each side, shaded by bony protuberances overgrown with coarse hairs. But the head was chiefly terrible because of the mouth. That mouth had great yellow fangs and ran from the top to the bottom of the head, opening vertically instead of horizontally."
—H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

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Introduction

I've been portraying mythos creatures for many years now, and recently decided to create a Lovecraft mythos bestiary from scratch. Only new works I have designed specifically for this project will be included in it.

There have been countless renditions of Lovecraft's creations, and many of them are very good. Some are more faithful than others to the descriptions given in the original writings, and the quality of work available varies widely. Some attempts to remain accurate and faithful to the descriptions result in visualizations which appear more silly than horrifying. My goal for this bestiary is to remain true to both the letter and the spirit of the writings for each piece.

I will publish my completed works in this blog as I finish them. I have no timeline that I plan to follow, since I tend to ignore such timelines when I set them. I will probably complete one piece every week or so, although there will be periods of time when I am otherwise preoccupied.

At the end of this project I hope to have sufficient completed works to have them published as a book, though I have not yet sought out potential publishers at this time.

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I am open to suggestions for creatures to include in the bestiary. The following creatures have already been requested by others and are planned for inclusion: Shoggoth, Elder Thing, Flying Polyp, Nightgaunt, Tindalos Hound, Ghast, Ghoul, Fungi from Yuggoth.

At this time the plan is to illustrate creatures, not individual characters or deities. I may reconsider this in the future, or make special exceptions; alternately, I may illustrate a separate compendium of individual characters and deities at some future point

My first completed piece is the Gug, and I will start a new post for this piece.