In The City of Lost Children (1995). "The Cyclops Sect 1 is a cult of blind cyborgs. They aduct small children for the mad scientist Krank using mechanical "Third Eyes" to see and hear."
The City of Lost Children: A Surreal French Fairy Tale for the Ages
1 "The Mechanical Eye: Cult members ritualistically sacrifice or shun their natural organic sight. They replace it with a single, bulky electronic video-camera lens worn over one eye (providing them with a distinct green-tinted point of view)."
It looks like I may have to purchase some new Sidekick from Bombshell Miniarures.
These are some badies here and a whole lot of them. They go by Italian Brainrot characters, amoung other monikers: Weird, bizarre, odd, strange, and horrifying to name just a few. I believe they are constructed from PVC plastic.
Nevertheless, I find them quite charming.
Edited on 12/17/25 @ 2139. Made some changes to spelling, grammar and labels.
“At last I heard the sounds from beyond those barred plates of sheet iron: the mencing padding and muttering, as of gigantic night things within.
Out of the cellar’s evil blackness they stretched, with shadowy hints of scaly wrists beyond them, and with a waving malignant will guiding their horrible groping.
I had come as a seeker-but now I knew that something was seeking me…”
The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions, H. P. Lovecraft and others, August Derleth, 1970.
A 245 page paperback novel, featuring 10 short stories. Published by Ballantine Books.
"They were humans - or so they believed - the grotesque result of a grandiose experiment which had gone appallingly awry.
Trapped on a world that was hurling through space at a fantasic speed, they sought the riddle of their heritage amoung the only companions they knew - ghosts, mutants, giants and regimented rats."
As found on the backcover of the 1963 edition of Brian Aldiss's Starship
Starship, Brian Aldiss
My posts have been scant this month. This miniature stands approximately 33mm tall and is cast from resin. Although he is pretty detailed I don't know if I will paint him.
Sometime ago I made my first post of "special books", those titles that were referred to in some piece of fiction. In the past I have researched the titles and have come upi empty. They prove to be fictional titles that were mentioned within the test, a figment of the authors imagination.
Here are a few more of these "made-up" titles.
"These, however, were but a prelude to his shelves of books, designated for deposit to the university library. Some appeared fabulously old, so old in fact, that they bore no dates and must have decended, to judge from their appearence and their written characters, from medieval times. The more recent of these were not dated beyound 1850: Pnakotic Manuscripts"Amoung the papers of the late Howard Phillip Lovecraft were various notes and or outlines for stories which he did not live to write. Of these, the most complete was the title story of this collection."
The Survivor"Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil. Perhaps it is the aroma of evil deeds committed under a particular roof, long after the actual doers have passed away, that makes the gooseflesh come and the hair rise. Something of the original passion of the evil-doer, and of the horror felt by his victim, enters the heart of the innocent watcher, and he becomes suddenly conscious of tingling nerves, creeping skin, and a chilling of the blood..."
—ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Preface from The Survivor, H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth.
Although Lovecraft may not had planned the Cthulha Mythos at the beginning, it didn't stop his contemporaries from contributing to its cause and eventual creation. These contributors using many of the same races added to the Cthulha Mythos:
Frank Belknap LongMore authors and their work. Classic Mythos Online
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Added text (Mythos) to the first paragraph on 3/31/25 at 1:10PM.
Updated on 3/25/25 at 11:48. I added the link above.
I found this list of additional titles of Ballentine’s horror line of books in The Survivor and Others, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. This volume was published in 1957 and with its yellowing and water damaged pages is not in great condition.
#377K The Sound of Hos Horn, SarbanIn addition, there are three books featured at the bottom the back cover.
Alone by NightThese titles may or may not still be available, but with not posting this list these titles would be lost to most of us.
It has been almost nine years since I last posted anything Lovecraftian, however recently a came into a small cache of Lovecraftian literature and I will be making a few new posts on this topic.
Although argumentatively it could be said that there are other texts associated with the mythos, these thirteen were written by the creator of the Mythos, H. P. Lovecraft.
I have read the titles that have been italicized.
“The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on an island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far…”
The Shadow of of Space, H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth
“We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers… Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.” Raoul Duke
Fear and Loathing in Los Vegas was required reading way back at the University. Although I haven't ever gotten that ripped, It is one view of the drug cultur films that spurred a lot of us on.
“History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.”
“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
"The man seated there wore alose yellow robe. His elbows rested on the desk, and his fingers-long yellow fingers - were pressed together; hw might have reminded an observer of a praying mantis. He had the hight brow of a philosopher and features suggesting great intellectual powers."
Emperor Fu Manchu Sax Rohmer, 1959. Titan Books 2015
"The high forehead, the chiseled, aggressive nose, the thin lips, were those of an aristocrat, a thinker, and a devil."
Most of what I have read of Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu-Manchu series have been eubs. Project Guntenberg feature a few of Rohmer's Dr. Fu-Manchu novels. In addition, to the Dr. Fu-Manchu series they offer a few additional titles. All that I have read have been great and suspenseful reads.
Here is a list from Wikipedia of Rohmers Fu-Manchu novels
The Wrath of Fu Manchu (1973). Actually a combination of the previously published stories:
Chronology of Dr. Fu Manchu and Sir Denis Nayland Smith
More of his excellency Dr. Fu-Manchu,
Public Domain Comics Wiki(Fu-Manchu )
"He spoke every civilized language with near perfection, and knows countless dialects as well. He has the brains of any three men of genius."
Quotes are from Emperor Fu Manchu (1959).
It has been awhile since my last encounter with his excellency Dr. Fu-Manchu.
Previously ->
"During the Cold War of the 1950s former allies Russia and China turned Communist. Their threat casting a shadow over the free world. Yet another enemy lurked in the shadows - the deadly secret assassin's of the Si Fan led by Dr. Fu-Manchu."
"In remote northern China, the dead walk again. An American agent, Tony MacKay finds himself face to face with these 'cold-men', zombies who exist to do the bidding of Fu-Manchu, the devil Doctor. "
Emperor Fu-Manchu, Sax Rohmer, © 1959
"A brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan. Eyes of true cat-green. I was looking at one of the most facinating faces I had ever seen."
Cover illustration from the British first edition hardcover of Emperor Fu-Manchu, published in 1959 by Herbert Jenkins.
Fu-Manchu, Sax Rohmer, Titan Books
Cover art by Gerald McConnell
"In an overpopulated world seeking living room in the jungles, the International Ecological Organization was systematically exterminating the voracious insects which made these areas uninhabitable. Using deadly foamal bombs and newly developed vibration weapons, men like Joao Martinho and his co-workers fought to clear the green hell on the Mato Grosso.
But somehow those areas which had been completely cleared were becoming reinfested. Tales were coming out from the jungles... of mutated insects that have grown to incredible sizes and able to produce deadly toxins... of insects who seem to be men, but whose eyes gleamed with chitinous sheen of insects."
The Green Brain, Frank Herbert, Ace Books © 1966
Orcs are bred for war and have faces only a mother could love.
Screenshot from the Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
