I'm just curious what got other people into this hobby, since a lot of my early exposure was oddly the Buffy spin off Angel when I was small. Ever since then, I'm constantly interested in all things Eldritch and mind bending, and why it interests people in general.
Symbolism explored through the ouroboros, the all-seeing eye, and a figure inspired by Plague Piper by Zdzisław Beksiński.
(Here is an audio version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIWrJ-j-QjQ . It was written as scenario seed for a Lovecraftian RPG).
Modern works drawing on Greek mythology usually make Hades (completely wrong) or Kronos (a little more) the Big Bad, but they forget about Zeus’s greatest enemy – Typhon. After defeating the titans and then the gigants, the Olympian gods had to face the main boss on the way to dominating the world – Typhon. Here is an example of its description: It was larger than the largest mountains, its head touched the stars. When he stretched out his hands, one reached the eastern ends of the world and the other reached the western ends. Instead of fingers, he had a hundred dragon heads. From the waist down he had a tangle of vipers (yay, tentacles!) and wings at his shoulders. His eyes were shooting out flames. In other versions of the myth, Typhon was a flying, hundred-headed dragon. In any case – appearance and stature worthy of the Great Old One. Typhon attacked Olympus, and all the gods except Zeus fled in panic. The supreme god took up the fight… and lost it. Only in the second duel did he manage to defeat Typhon, but not kill him – he only imprisoned him, hitting him with a mountain which is known as Etna. And volcanic activity is the result of Typhon’s anger, trying to break free.
Typhon equaled the lord of heaven not only in strength, but in fertility. His wife was Echidna, about whom Hesiod wrote: „She also gave birth to another creature, invincible, huge, unlike neither men nor immortal gods, in a hollow cave – the divine violent Echidna, half a sharp-eyed young girl, with beautiful cheeks, half a huge snake, a great and powerful, spotted, cruel – in the depths of the holy land. This pair spawned many, if not most, of the monsters found in Greek mythology. Their offspring were very diverse and strange, as befits the spawn of enemies of the divine order, including:
– Ladon, the hundred-headed dragon who never slept and guarded the apples that gave immortality,
– Cerberus – we all know the dog guarding the gates of hell… but not all of us know that, according to some accounts, it had not three heads, but as many as 50, it was also covered with scales, and it had a snake for a tail… so what does this have to do with a dog?
– Scylla – this lady inherited the most from the human, beautiful part of Echidna… at least initially, but eventually, as a result of various perturbations, she turned from a beautiful nymph to something like her siblings, becoming a six-headed sea beast, so hideous, according to Homer, that even the gods could not stand sight of her – she dwelt in a cave, from where she opened her mouth to devour the crews of ships,
– Gorgons – I mean, those ladies with snake hair, not monstrous bulls. Medusa was one of them – the story that Athena turned her priestess into a monster as punishment for being raped by Poseidon is an invention of later poets,
– Lernaean Hydra – a multi-headed monster with many reptilian or human heads. In place of each severed head, two others grew, and in addition, the main head was completely immortal – therefore, after chopping off the mortal heads, Heracles had to burn the stumps and bury the immortal, still hissing head underground. Hydra’s breath was poisonous,
– various other creatures, such as the Sphinx, the dog Ortus, the Nemean Lion or the Chimera.
Each of these descendants has the potential to be portrayed as an Eldritch abomination in its own right. To be precise – according to some accounts, the father of these creatures (and Echidna herself) wasn’t Typhon, but a monstrous, ancient (older than Poseidon) sea god, Phorcys.
How to use Typhon? Well, Typhon clearly has the potential to be a Great Old One, imprisoned by… Nodens? Some other Elder God? Weak gods of humanity? Maybe his cult is trying to free him from Etna? What if he succeeds? What might distinguish Typhon from many other Great Old Ones? I would recommend focusing on his monster progenitor aspect – if he manages to reunite with Echidna, they will immediately start spawning various blasphemous beasts in series.
More Lovecraftian inspirations You will find in the free brochure: https://adeptus7.itch.io/lovecraftian-inspirations-from-real-life-and-beliefs
Great globes of light mass towards the opening & protoplasmic flesh flowed blackly outward to form that eldritch, hideous horror from the outer spheres, a spawn of the blankness of primal time, that tentacled, amorphous monster that was the lurker at the threshold.
Genuinely one of the best books I have -ever- read. “I found myself both repulsed and allured”
What a way with words! David Kane’s Drippy Trippy Doom sits unapologetically amongst House of Leaves, The Wasp Factory and the works of HP Lovecraft. Embracing sci-fi, fantasy, punk-rock psychedelic cosmic-horror vibes, this forbidden book makes a narcotised nighttime wander through Innsmouth seem explicitly tame.
“Quite predictably, I’ve gone insane”
A most unsettling trip, well worth giving up your sanity for.
My favourite entries were:
Delicious lysergic doom
She came from planet Claire
Call me face stabber
Gotta light
Hey all,
I’ve been building an indie project and wanted to share it with people who might actually get it.
It’s a location-based investigation game inspired by TRPG Call of Cthulhu, and the Arkham Horror boardgame.
Weird and, quite often eerie phenomena have been plaguing your city. They are investigated as individual cases. Inter-dimensional gates are spawning to cause supernatural disturbances.
You investigate these strange cases by going outside, to investigate real-world locations and attempt to seal the gates.
The goal is simple: Turn your daily stroll into a collective effort to fend off cosmic horrors.
What I have built:
But being beta, the following shortcomings are expected:
I’m starting a small beta test and want feedback from:
I set up a Discord for + updates:
https://discord.gg/gEpbuBGHP
If this sounds interesting, I’d genuinely love your thoughts — even if it’s “this is a terrible idea” (that’s useful too).
Thanks 🙏
One of the Hastur illustrations I made for my Kickstarter project. It was one of the most fun characters to make, I have to admit.
The Shining Trapezohedron is a window on all time & space, & tracing its history from the days it was fashioned on dark Yuggoth, before ever the Old Ones brought it to earth. It was treasured & placed in its curious box by the crinoid things of Antarctica.
Painting created by the artist Iza depicting the orbital overflight of the Soviet-Brazilian mission over the core of the Null Vortex, conducted for the identification of the entity ZZ-001.
MISSION SVET was a joint Soviet-Brazilian orbital operation launched in 1996 with the objective of conducting the first controlled overflight of the Null Vortex above the Amazon rainforest.
Using the Buran-II spacecraft and the analog SIRFAE-100 optical system, the mission attempted to obtain visual records of the phenomenon’s core and identify the occurrence designated ZZ-001.
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MISSION SVET - SOVIET-BRAZILIAN ORBITAL OPERATION BRIEFING | NULL VORTEX | 26/08/1996: https://youtu.be/Q30HjkzsN8c
For more context: https://www.youtube.com/@v_limbo88
BRAZIL MAP - 1994: https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/1t76iu9/map_of_brazil_in_1994_null_vortex_crisis_timeline/
GREAT FILTER ZONE(SP-001) / AMAZON EXCLUSION ZONE - 01/05/2001: https://www.reddit.com/r/cosmichorror/comments/1tbgcjd/great_filter_zonesp001_amazon_exclusion_zone/
ADVANCE OF AB-088 ENTITIES - PURUS RIVER / 31/10/1996 - PAINTED/PHOTOGRAPHIC: https://www.reddit.com/r/cosmichorror/comments/1t9le10/advance_of_ab088_entities_purus_river_31101996/
AB-015 - VISUAL(PAINTED/PHOTOGRAPHIC) RECORD: https://www.reddit.com/r/cosmichorror/comments/1t8q7wc/ab015_visualpaintedphotographic_record/
Obs 1: The image was developed using Blender 5.1.1 and GIMP.
Obs2: I'm developing a wiki to organize all these entities and the chronology of the story to make it easier to understand.
RELATOS
We are creating a horror game inspired by real stories sent by people online.
Strange encounters.
Things seen in the dark.
Sounds in the middle of the night.
Abandoned houses.
Empty roads.
Forests.
Dreams that felt too real.
The 5 most chilling stories may become playable episodes inside RELATOS.
You can submit:
• anonymously
• or using your nickname for the credits
RULES:
— The story must be original
— No fake/copied stories
— Do not share personal information
— We may adapt parts of the story for the game
📩 Send your story via DM
or email:
camuflated.lab@gmail.com
Your story could become an episode.
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im not an actual digital artist at all, i quite suck at drawing, but i liked the concept too much to not bring it to life to the best of my abilities