Lovecraft creatures continued...

Cthulhu...

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"If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings..."

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Illustrate the creatures of H. P Lovecrafts horror stories

This one is from the story: The Lurking Fear.

What would something that might be a devolved human living in the earth look like? Mole like or?

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The thing came abruptly and unannounced; a demon, ratlike scurrying from pits remote and unimaginable, a ellish panting and stifled grunting, and then from that opening beneath the chimney a burst of multitudinous and leprous life -
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What I saw in the glow of flashlight after I shot the unspeakable straggling object was so simple that almost a minute elapsed before I understood and went delirious. The object was nauseous; a filthy whitish gorilla thing with sharp yellow fangs and matted fur. It was the ultimate product of mammalian degeneration; the frightful outcome of isolated spawning, multiplication, and cannibal nutrition above and below the ground; the embodiment of all the snarling and chaos and grinning fear that lurk behind life. It had looked at me as it died, and its eyes had the same odd quality that marked those other eyes which had stared at me underground and excited cloudy recollections. One eye was blue, the other brown. They were the dissimilar Martense eyes of the old legends, and I knew in one inundating cataclysm of voiceless horror what had become of that vanished family; the terrible and thunder-crazed house of Martense.

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