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i Ц ■* 1 I I ш The toughness, of the things was almost incredible. Even the terrific pressure of the deepest sea bottoms appeared powerless to harm them. Very few seemed to die at all except by violence, and their burial places were very limited. — IL P. Lovecraft Лп Elder Thing, or Old One, is a crinoid-like, halfvegetable organism with a star-shaped head, an ereet barrel-like body, a multiplicity of tentacles, and five wings. When not in use, the wings are pulled into little pockets in the sides of the thick torso. This species is notable for its strong radial symmetry. Distribution : along the mid-Atlantic ridge. Eons ago, the Elder Thing was found across the entire southern hemisphere (later, only Antarctica). These intelligences originally came to Earth from another world. Closely related species are known to still thrive on distant planets. The Elder Thing civilization prospered on Earth for millions of years. Its last land stronghold was in Antarctica; with the advent of the last Ice Age, it was forced entirely undersea. Over the course of that civilization, the species became progressively more decadent, losing most of its ancient lore. Now its range is entirely submarine, confined to the deepest parts of the ocean. Life and Habits : an Elder Thing reproduces through spores. It can derive nourishment from inorganic substances, but is much more active and \ vigorous when feeding on organic life, especially animals. The Elder Thing is extremely tough, can survive all ordinary temperatures, and can move with great speed on land, sea, and air. Arriving on Earth over a billion years ago, the race survived the interstellar journey by means of a chemical process which rendered them impervious to temperature fluctuation, vacuum, and any need to eat or breath. On Earth the species created simple organisms as food, as well as Shoggoths to serve as slave-beasts. Either as accident or joke, the Elder Things also prompted the development of all earthly life. The ill-fated Starkweather-Moore expedition emphasized the once-high aesthetic and intellectual development of the species. Distinguishing Elder Things: Fungi From Yuggoth have rounded heads, only two wings, and are never found underwater. Habitat: the deep sea. These creatures inhabited a wide variety of terrains; conceivably one might be found anvwhere. - I» *-v. -*•' ' • *• l'■' Г- «*£- Leg f .v mm r ; Ж.* 26 sa ff’C' ifCTKPK ~ i+'J t " 3 5 -d ... - - i- = —... f r / Ver-hc J AJjvsbymenb ' т< An ElJer 7% c«n Mer ,bs LegU by exbenAj^ ^ Г f^Jyt!keJ -»bo 2e core rn«ss ' jllsl,-k. W^jockebs «re sp.«ceJ «roonj A* £ eKc,betent or is Jol in prep«r«b,on for ftijU fn £>cfie*Sio* o-f "fbe staiks CtgU+, A« ElJer Tttinj issvJly , JLjs lo+L neck «nJ sbjk, «s sUoWn by bbe sJUoebbe on bUe f«c,nj p«J .
There flapped rhythmically a horde of tame, trained, hybrid winged things . . . They were not altogether crows, nor moles, nor buzzards, яяг antsy nor decomposed human beings, but something! cannot and must not recall — II. P. Lovecraft The Byalchee is an interstellar being composed of conventional matter. The body of a Byakhee has two major portions: the thorax and opisthosoma. From the thorax stretch two wings, two limbs, and a head. Two additional manipulatory limbs grow from the forepart of the opisthosoma, while the hune, a unique paramagnetic organ, occupies much of the opisthosoma’s remainder. It is a noisy, active entity. At rest and in flight it screeches and croaks, except when stalking prey. Though its limbs are sturdy enough, the Byakhee rarely walks, flying whenever possible. Habitat : preferring airless planetoids and comet nuclei, a Byakhee enters atmospheres only to feed on planet-hound organisms. Distribution : perhaps originating near Aldebaran, Byakhee can he found as far as several hundred light years from that star. They travel to Earth, hut do not dwell here. Life and I Iabits : Byakhee are encountered singly or in small groups. Their breeding habits are unknown. Byakhee generally feed on interplanetary life-forms rare to Earth’s solar system, hut Byakhee also devour Earth-dwellers with bothersome regularity. Interesting Facts : the hune as an organ is not well understood by exohiologists. It may he attuned to the galactic magnetic field, propelled bv the flux. On a planet, the hune allows a Byakhee to hover; its wings must he used for movement and steering. In space, the hune allows movement and limited maneuver. At the Earth’s surface, Byakhee can fly at 45mph, a speed increasable as air pressure lessens; in space, a Byakhee can eventually reach speeds one-tenth that of light. In interstellar vacuum, the Byakhee’s hune can generate the space-time pattern called a keim by ancient writers. Within it, a Byakhee can travel at speeds up to 400 times that of light. Generating a keim is hard work, and only is done for interstellar voyages. The trip ended, the emerging Byakhee is voraciously hungry: avoid it. Most Byakhee encountered on Earth arrive by keim. Distinguishing Byakhee : Fungi from Yuggoth are pinkish, have six manipulatory limbs, and fly clumsily in atmosphere, unlike agile Byakhee. Aightgaunts are black, voiceless, and faceless, and have tails. Shantaks are much larger than Bvakhee. 1= 333 * =t ?<• «■ yakhee Me 'ore MyS+егу -ftoysL bioU.cJy «*»reL-feJ, sirucburJL +Le 3y.kLee>s UuJiS founJ wLere sixers .re loc.+eJ >«E.r4UL bees. MgL+ +Le orgvJLU* L.J., Mcfeosve J.+« OrfiLe By.kLee is fou*J ,« Treer (№4). F& 2.—kUee cross-sec\A о*). л.
No one need wonder at the existence of a literature of cosmic fear. It has always existed, and always will exist; and no better evidence of its tenacious vigour can be cited than the impulse which now and then drives writers of totally opposite leanings to try their hands at it in isolated tales, as if to discharge from their minds certain phantasmal shapes which would otherwise haunt them. m. IL P. Lovecraft A Hound of Tindalos is a horrendous quadruped which manifests itself through the corner angles of rooms in Earthly structures, sending itself through time and space to attack the being on which it wishes to feed. A typical Hound has a long, sinuous tongue and drips a putrid substance like blue pus. Frankly, the Hound of Tindalos is beyond normal human comprehension and evaluation. Though it appears so, a Hound is not an organic creature. It is a manifestation of the principle of perceptive being known to humans as “foulness”. Foulness is a hyper-geometrical organizational axis shared by many of the entities described in this field guide; as a concept, foulness is uncomfortably difficult to summarize, because as humans we identify states of being as definitional elements rather than as polyclusters. But, following Isinwyll (1987), we are not the poorer in merely nominating the Hound as a singularity of loathsomeness and terrifying hunger, considering what humanity would be like if our understanding of the Hound was more precise, more empathetic! Distribution : the distant past. But a Hound can visit any time and almost any place, if impelled by hunger or other malign purpose. Life and habits: some psychic factor or inherent trait within humans and certain other life forms appeals to a Hound, from which it gets evident nourishment. If this unknown factor is not necessary to the I Iounds survival, the species may not be truly predacious. A Hound of Tindalos can manifest only through an angle of 90' or less. Whether this angle is formed by a room’s corner, a crack in a rock formation, or a bent leaf is immaterial. A Hounds appearance is signified by clouds of vapor steaming from the chosen angle, swiftlv followed by the coalescence of the Hound. Nothing of the Hounds life cycle, if it has one, is known, nor have significant physical evidences been accumulated from the several dozen recorded attacks (Wailing, 1982). DistinguishingHounds of Tindalos : Habitat: the angles of time in the extremely distant past; inconclusive evidence of pre-galactic existence has been advanced (Hike, 1983). Dimensional Shamblers do not necessarily form from corners, and are bipedal. - rVlAI*) fr Of TmeUoSjb
ire The one test of the really weird is simply this—whether or not. there he excited in the reader a profound sense of dread, and of contact with unknown spheres and powers; a subtle attitude of awed listening, as if for the heating of black wings or the scratching of outside shapes and entities on the known universe's utmost rim. — IL P. Lovecraft A Star Vampire is normally invisible. It often emits disconcerting laughter or grotesque titters. It becomes visible immediately after feeding, taking on the color ofwhatever liquid is being absorbed into its tissues. This predator can be sprayed or dusted with opaque materials, rendering it visible for an extended period of time (Blake, 1935). A Star Vampire feeds only on liquid food. Its sucker-mouths and talons tear open the integument of a victim to reach the inner juices. This vampire flies with no visible means of propulsion. It is obviously made of non-terrestrial matter, which doubtlessly assists it in remaining air- or space-borne. Habitat : outer space. The species seems to live in between the stars, traveling to planetary surfaces to feed or when summoned by certain quasi-telepathic techniques (Blake, 1935). Star Vampire, nor do we know whether or not it is social, nor how or if it reproduces. It ingests its liquid food through many stomata, tiny sucker-mouths equipped with teeth and separate sucking-stomachs. The liquid then is assimilated throughout the creatures form, rendering it temporarily visible. Within a varying length of time, less than a minute in the case of mammalian blood (Fallworth, 1936), the liquid metabolized and the creature once more becomes transparent. We do not know how the Star Vampire speedily traverses the great distance between its natural haunts and solar system food sources. Some results indicate use of sub-dimensional tunnels (Dannseys, 1988). No evidence of a hune has been found (Ratscgg, 1988), but the properties of that organ are poorly understood. Distribution : ubiquitous in our galactic arm. Life and Habits : the internal structure of a Star Vampire is peculiar and loosely-grained. Astonishingly for an interstellar dweller, it feeds only on complex organic liquids. It is of roughly human intelligence, but no artifacts are associated with the Л епезик -- As with other such beings, the Star Vampire is unstudied in its natural habitat, for lack of proper extra-solar research facilities. Distinguishing Fire Vampires: • Flying Polyps emit whistling shrieks rather than tittering sounds. • Fungi From Yuggoth are always visible to the naked eye. Л ' * ofco».»* * ь- Tj rt. itzgp*# ’&*& •Str /ЦЛ /i/tcvemP*'
Very odd and ugly were these beings, as indeed are most beings of a world у el inchoate and rudely fashioned. It is written on the brick cylinders of Kadalheron that the beings oflb were in hue as green as the lake and the mists that rise above it; that they had bulging eyes, pouting, jlabby lips, and curious ears, and were without voice — 11. P. Lovecraft In prehistoric times, the Beings oflb descended from the sky in a mist, along with a gray stone city (lb) and a vast lake. The men of Sarnath, who believed them to have come from the Moon, exterminated the Ibites millennia ago, but more of the race presumably exist on the Moon or elsewhere. Their solid-seeming ghosts still wander the ruins of lb and the site of Sarnath. Isinwyll (1989) may have met representatives of this species in the western Dreamlands, near the Bnazic Desert. Ibitc to know what any other Ibite would think or do. lie hypothesized that Ibites do not need to communicate elaborate data. Habitat: Marshes and lakeshores. No Ibite or Ibite ghost has been reported near salt water, arguing for restricted oviparous reproduction. Distribution : Possibly extinct in the Dreamlands, or of localized or highly restricted range. Life and I Iabits : The Ibites did not know of fire until after arriving in the Dreamlands—perhaps their previous environment lacked oxygen. Those near Sarnath apparently fed on the fish and other inhabitants of their lake, which was filled with life. They devotedly worshiped Bokrug the water-lizard, and danced before that deity’s image whenever the Moon was gibbous. DistinguishingBeings oflb: • Gnorri have no hinder legs, and sport bristly beards. • Gugs are much, much larger, and are hairy. • Men of Leng have hair and horns, and many, when dressed properly, can pass for human. • Serpent People have long tails and scaly hides. A Being oflb is humanoid, but more variable in size than humans. Л typical adult Ibite weighs around 200 pounds (90 kg) and stands about 6 feet tall (just under 2m). But specimens from 85-400 pounds weight (40-180 kg) and 4-8 feet in height (1.4-2.4m) are not uncommon. An Ibite is without voice or any means of vocalizing sound. I low or if one communicates with another remains unknown. Gillman (1982) writes that every Ibite appears to have had identical brain-cell structures, and that such parallelism permitted each ^=3 г- • ЧВ ТеШе Sr я» TLoU^L 5а ~fb~ &ei')4iS о-Г lb are ____А^дТТглгел tset'gS 04- IL> лг-f* lonj-JeccJ, -fLeir^Lorfs **Ау ос?/ к*о\А/ // cOiTtove aS 'fUoy^L *\or*v\AHy Alive, л ос/ tfw^o leAve ■foo'fpr-^’fs.
9 The gugs, hairy and gigantic, once reared stone circles . . . and made strange sacrifices to the Other Gods and the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep, until one night an abomination of theirs reached the ears of earth's gods and they were banished to caverns below. . . That a mortal dreamer could traverse their cavern realm and leave by that door is inconceivable; for mortal dreamers were their former food, and they have legends of the toothsomeness of such dreamers. — II. P. Lovecraft A Gug is a species of shaggy cannibal giant, restricted to life underground by a curse of the Great Ones. From each of its black-furred arms sprout two forepaws, equipped with dreadful talons. Its legs and feet are bird- or dinosaur-like, and patches of greasy black fur cover its body. The face of a Gug is especially terrible, with bulging pink eyes set on bony swellings and a ghastly fanged mouth splitting the head vertically. Voiceless, the thing communicates by facial expression and gesture. Habitat: as intelligent beings, almost anywhere. The species quickly adapted to caverns after banishment from the surface world. Distribution : currently restricted to the Underworld, through fear of the Great One curse. Л Gug kingdom exists and individuals wander throughout the Underworld. Life and Habits : These giants superstitiously avoid Ghouls (who regularly visit Gug graveyards), feeding primarily upon Ghasts which they hunt down in the lightless Vaults of Zin. Gugs have peculiar and despicable reproductive practices; see Truer (1984) for particulars. Most Gugs live in a horrible walled kingdom-city where cyclopean round towers soar endlessly into the black air overhead. Each tower has a single black portal, thirty feet high. Rough stone paves the whole of the city (Carter, 1927). At the city’s center is the sign of Koth, on a great central tower leading to the surface of the Dreamlands. No day or night exists in the twilight realm, and a Gug usually sleeps immediately after gorging on loathsome provender: just after general feast-time may be the best time to penetrate this place. Ghast raiders, occasionally attacking then, may imperil researchers. Distinguishing Gugs: • The Beings from lb are much smaller and more rubbery'. • Men of Leng are much smaller, with only two arms and normally-placed facial features. • Tsathoggua has a squat, toad-like appearance, and a horizontal mouth. Tie It. «--Й MJ& tf-H* A. -?^ ur ‘ -L ,АИ/ л^е л/ ос?/ tfpe* * excelled reason ,с;л/ s^pok'*e'}^A <~е>т kvt^c'> - г/ ц Ls *Ж рп«*М, SUPP7^5 ". fce е' у ss ope^ess^ /7, Fg. 33—(3u_7 skull..
Moon . ft -------- The moon was a crescent shining larger and larger. . . [the galleys] destination was that secret О and mysterious side which is always turned away . . . [Carter] did not like the size and shape of the ruins which crumbled here and there. The dead temples on the mountains were so placed that they could have glorified no suitable or wholesome gods, and in the symmetries of the broken columns there seemed to be some dark and inner meaning which did not invite solution. — 1I. P. Lovecraft i) Typically, this is a large, grayish-while oily being which can contract and expand its body volume. A Moon-Beast’s general shape is toad-like. Though it lacks visible sense organs other than a quivering cluster of short, usually pink tentacles on the tip of the snout, the creature’s high intelligence and utter ruthlessness compensate for the handicap. In the Dreamlands, Moon-Beast culture trades extensively for sentient slaves, both as food and as labor. Their slaves hail from all corners of the known universe, though Lunar proximity makes humans the slaves of choice for most Moon-Beast buyers. Habitat: a Moon-Beast can tolerate a wide variety of climates and conditions, and can draw upon a considerable body of technical knowledge with which to further extend its range. Colonies of Moon-Beasts might be found almost anywhere. Distribution : it seems not to be known on Earth, but infests the Moon in that cerebral dimension commonly known as the Dreamlands. The Moon-Beast may be found only in the Dreamlands, or psychic traces of the species may still linger on the Moon in this plane, or Moon-Beast colonies simply may have expanded more rapidly in the Dreamlands than in our plane (Fallworth, 1922, Kylton, 1979). Analysis of Apollo 11 photographs leaves the tantalizing possibility that a Moon-Beast colony does in fact lay on the far side of the Moon, hidden from day-to-day human detection (Dannseys, 1971). Life and Habits : a Moon-Beast apparently feeds solely on still-living beings, extracting a peculiar and sinister nourishment from the body and soul of the creature it devours. The species also engages heavily in recreational torture, taking vile pleasure in the anguish of other beings. This Moon-Beast trait is so consistent that it may evidence direct mental or physical benefit from such activity. Distinguishing Moon-Beasts: • Formless Spawn arc black. • Servitors of the Outer Gods are even more formless than Moon-Beasts, and normally have only tentacles for limbs. Co~rrTl W; f' ' * kT ‘ »:» 114 i "These * ^лпцг ce^^vnes, лп +eJ и//7^ iLe**' TL* 'Pre^U^Js. г . - -
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