Tag: sketches

The cuttings largely alluded to outré mental illness
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A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.

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What seemed to be the main document was headed “CTHULHU CULT”

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If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature…

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That glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed out from an accidental piecing together of separated things…

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We shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
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On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly.
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From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.
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Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents.
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Some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality.
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Consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn 
#Cthulathon

Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival…
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Something I wanted to bring to life in this illustration was a sense of crazy.

-D

Cthulhu described:

In “The Call of Cthulhu”, H. P. Lovecraft describes the Cthulhu as “A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.”