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

DWELLER

DWELLER

"It had been old when Babylon was new;

None knows how long it slept beneath that mound,

Where in the end our questing shovels found

Its granite blocks and brought it back to view.

There were vast pavements and foundation-walls,

And crumbling slabs and statues, carved to shew

Fantastic beings of some long ago

Past anything the world of man recalls.

And then we saw those stone steps leading down

Through a choked gate of graven dolomite

To some black haven of eternal night

Where elder signs and primal secrets frown.

We cleared a path—but raced in mad retreat

When from below we heard those clumping feet."

H.P. Lovecraft, The Fungi From Yuggoth

INVISIBLE THING

INVISIBLE THING

"55-Man followed by invisible thing."

H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

PRIMORDIAL THING

PRIMORDIAL THING

"169-What hatches from primordial egg." 

H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

SHAPELESS LIVING THING

SHAPELESS LIVING THING

"80-Shapeless living thing forming nucleus of ancient building."

H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

SITTER

SITTER

"106-A thing that sat on a sleeper’s chest. Gone in morning, but something left behind." 

H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

STRANGE PREHISTORIC CREATURE

STRANGE PREHISTORIC CREATURE

"100-Subterranean region beneath placid New England village, inhabited by (living or extinct) creatures of prehistoric antiquity and strangeness."

H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

NON-TERRESTRIAL BEING

NON-TERRESTRIAL BEING

"187 Dream of awaking in vast hall of strange architecture, with sheet-covered forms on slabs—in positions similar to one’s own. Suggestions of disturbingly non-human outlines under sheets. One of the objects moves and throws off sheet—non-terrestrial being revealed. Sugg. that oneself is also such a being—mind has become transferred to body on other planet." 

H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

VAMPIRE

VAMPIRE 

"105-Vampire visits man in ancestral abode-is his own father." 

H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

BLOATED THING

 BLOATED THING

"178-A very ancient tomb in the deep woods near where a 17th century Virginia manor-house used to be. The undecayed, bloated thing found within."
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

AMPHIBIOUS HUMAN

AMPHIBIOUS HUMAN

"128-Individual, by some strange process, retraces the path of evolution and becomes amphibious."

H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

MERMAID

 MERMAID
"22-Mermaid Legend—Encyc. Britt. XVI—40."
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

"This is the name of a female water being in the form of a beautiful young woman from the head to the waist, the rest of her body being like the tail of a huge fish."

"Even the ancient accounts, as well as the more modern ones, mention the appearance of these supernaturals in conjunction with misfortune and disaster, although occasionally they can be benevolent."
Carol Rose, Giants, Monsters and Dragons

GARGOYLE II

GARGOYLE II

"77-Unspeakable dance of the gargoyles—in morning several gargoyles on old cathedral found transposed."

H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

"Its companion was a horned satyr, with the vans of some great bat such as might roam the nether caverns, with sharp, clenching talons, and a look of Satanically brooding lust, as if it were gloating above the helpless object of its unclean desire."

Clark Ashton Smith, The Maker Of Gargoyles

GARGOYLE I

GARGOYLE I

"76-Ancient cathedral—hideous gargoyle—man seeks to rob—found dead—gargoyle’s jaw bloody."

H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

"One was a snarling, murderous, cat-headed monster, with retracted lips revealing formidable fangs, and eyes that glared intolerable hatred from beneath ferine brows. This creature had the claws and wings of a griffin, and seemed as if it were poised in readiness to swoop down on the city of Vyones, like a harpy on its prey."

Clark Ashton Smith, The Maker Of Gargoyles

FANTASTICK DAEMON (FUSELI)

FANTASTICK DAEMON (FUSELI)
"119-Art note—fantastick daemons of  
Salvator Rosa or Fuseli (trunk-proboscis)."
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

Visual reference
Henry Fuseli, Thor Battering the Midgard Serpent

FANTASTICK DAEMON (ROSA)

FANTASTICK DAEMON (ROSA)

"119-Art note—fantastick daemons of 
Salvator Rosa or Fuseli (trunk-proboscis)."
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

Visual reference
Salvator Rosa, The Temptation Of St. Anthony

VAMPIRE DOG

VAMPIRE DOG
"148-Vampire dog."
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

DEMON-POSSESSED CORPSE

DEMON-POSSESSED CORPSE
"196-Daemons, when desiring an human form for evil purposes, take to themselves the bodies of hanged men."
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

BRIDGE CREATURE

BRIDGE CREATURE

"217-Ancient (Roman? prehistoric?) stone bridge washed away by a (sudden and curious?) storm. Something liberated which had been sealed up in the masonry of years ago. Things happen."
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

The thing had eight major arm-like appendages protruding from an elliptical body, six of which were tipped with flipper-like protrusions, the other two being tentacular. Four of the web-tipped legs were located at the lower end of the body, and used for walking upright. The other two were near the head, and could be used for walking near to the ground. The head joined directly to the body; it was oval and eyeless. In place of eyes, there was an abominable sponge-like circular organ about the centre of the head; over it grew something hideously like a spider’s web. Below this was a mouth-like slit which extended at least halfway round the head, bordered at each side by a tentacle-like appendage with a cupped tip, obviously used for carrying food to the mouth. The whole thing was more than a simply alien and horrific monstrosity; it was surrounded by an aura of incredible, eons-lost evil.

A bolt of lightning seemed to crash directly on the bridge, and the shattered stonework of a support momentarily revealed a circular seal, carven with an immense star, before the waters rushed to conceal it.

An’ then somethin’ went past the winder — big an’ black an’ shiny, like a fish.

The sketch and the Necronomicon illustration had not reproduced everything; they had not shown the transparency of the half-gelatinous flesh, revealing the mobile organs beneath the skin. Nor had they shown the globular organ above the brain, at whose use Chesterton could only guess shudderingly. And as the mouth fell open when they stirred the body, he saw that the being possessed no teeth, but six rows of powerful tentacles interlaced across the
opening of the throat.
Ramsey Campbell, The Horror From the Bridge

BLACK WINGED THING

BLACK WINGED THING
"199-Black winged thing flies into one’s house at night. Cannot be found or identified—but subtle developments ensue."
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book