The Masks of Cthulhu & the Cthulhu Mythos

"The vast, terrible enity from beyound time and sapce who waits brooding in his cyclopean home in sunken R'lyeh symbol and actuality of inimaginable nightmare - the greatest creation of H.P. Lovecraft.

The Cthulhu Mythos inspired many authors to write storoes using it as a theme - and thie anthology contains the best of these, together with key Cthulhu stories by Lovecraft. Some of these authors are: August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Howard, Frank Belknap Long , J. Vernon Shea".

The Masks of Lovecraft – The Al Azif Texts

“In brief, the book, originally entitled Al Azif, was written circa AD. 730 at Damascus by Abdul Alhazred, “a mad poet of Sana, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade Caliphs.”

Thereafter, its history unfolds as follows:

“Translated into Greek as the Necronomican, AD. 950 by Theodouis Philetas”
“Burnt by Patriarch Michael, AD. 1050(IE Greek text...Arabic text now lost)
“Olaus Wormius translates the Greek into Latin, AD. 1228”
“Latin and Greek editions suppressed by Pope Gregory IX, AD. 1232”
“Black letter edition- Germany – 1440?”
“Greek text printed in Italy – 1500 – 1550”
Spanish translation of Latin text – 1600?”

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft and Others

The Cyclops Sect

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."

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The City of Lost Children: A Surreal French Fairy Tale for the Ages

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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)."

What do you get when you cross a elephant with a catus?

You get a Lirili Larila or something like that.

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Lirili Larila stands approximately 60mm tall and is cast from a hard PVC plastic. This figure is from Italian brainrot. .

Indominus Rex Collectors Card

For a frame of reference = >

Breed:Indominus Rex
Family: Hybrid
Height:6.7m (21.98 ft.)
LENGTH:16.9m (55.44 ft.)
Weight: Unknown

Italian Brainrot Characters

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.

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Edited on 12/17/25 @ 2139. Made some changes to spelling, grammar and labels.

Weird Oh's Card #33

Here is another one of those weird-ohs collectors cards. I don't remember exactly what these cards came with, but they were included with another werid-oh's product. I will have to do some research into this.

Cellar Horrows

“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.

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A 245 page paperback novel, featuring 10 short stories. Published by Ballantine Books.

Contents

1. The Crawling Chaos, H. P. Lovecraft and Elizabeth Berkeley
2. The Green Meadow, H. P. Lovecraft and Elizabeth Berkeley
3. Winged Death, Hazel Heald
4. The Horror in the Museum, Hazel Heald
5. The Diary of Alonzo Typer, William Lumley
6. The Horror in the Burying Ground, Hazel Heald
7. The Electric Executioner, Adolphe de Castro
8. The Curse of Yig, Zealia Bishop
9. The Mound, Zealia Bishop
10. Two Black Bottles, Wilfred Blanch Talman

Weird-ohs Collector Cards

Coming soon...Featuring some of Bill Campbell's incredible characters originally developed over 40 years ago. Weird-o collectable cards are back."

Contributors to the Cthulha Mythos

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 Long
Clark Aston Smith
August Derleth
Lin Carter
Robert W. Chambers
Robert E. Howard

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More 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.

Sauron's Orcs

Orcs are bred for war and have faces only a mother could love.

Screenshot from the Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Nevermore Academy

Jenna Ortega hits it on spot with her portrayal of Wednesday Addams. Wednessday is sent to a private school after "dumping live piranhas into the school's pool in retaliation for the boys' water polo team bullying her brother Pugsley." Nevermore Academy is a school for misfits that Wednesday finds her self after the incident.

The series reads like a mystry, one in which Wednesday finds herself trying to unravel. Seaon 1 consists of eight eposoids. I look forward to season two which is said to be released sometime 2025.

Screenshots are from season 1 of Netflix's Wednesday.

Another Garish Bakugan

This piece of plastic is referred to as Trox. He like the last post I made of these minitures, is cast in same garish colors and in hideous poses. Perhaps that is what caught my eye. But then, it was found in a blind bag.

I am not all that fond of this sclupt nor his counterpart. However, if I am to keep him, he needs his toe nails clipped.

Strange Animals and Predators

"There had been deaths or course, to the foothold lost, to viruses and bacteria of the hinterland, and to the depredations of the inland preditors, animals that unfold in claws, teeth, cirri, and killed. Drogon went hunting with the Council's forces and came back with heads of strange predators, with new wounds and stories...

...The Iron Council papsed over foorprints, the stiletto holds of an echinoerd rex, the strange track of an inchman, pounded earth in clumps of four or five yards apart."

Iron Council, China Mieville

Creatures from H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands

Ghasts

"That a mortal dreamer could traverse their cavern realm and leave by that door is inconceivable; for mortal dreamers were their former food, and they have legends of the toothsomeness of such dreamers even though banishment has restricted their diet to the ghasts, those repulsive beings which die in the light, and which live in the vaults of Zin and leap on long hind legs like kangaroos."

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, H. P. Lovecraft

"Ghasts are humanoid creatures with hoofed feet and kangaroo-like legs and nose-less faces".

The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia, Daniel Harms

Creatures from H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands

Moon-Beasts

"There, around a hideous fire fed by the obnoxious stems of lunar fungi, there squatted a stinking circle of the toad-like moon-beasts and their almost-human slaves. Some of these slaves were heating curious iron spears in the leaping flames, and at intervals applying their white-hot points to three tightly trussed prisoners that lay writhing before the leaders of the party. From the motions of their tentacles Carter could see that the blunt-snouted moon-beasts were enjoying the spectacle hugely, and vast was his horror when he suddenly recognised the frantic meeping and knew that the tortured ghouls were none other than the faithful trio which had guided him safely from the abyss and had thereafter set out from the enchanted wood to find Sarkomand and the gate to their native deeps."

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, H. P. Lovecraft

Moon-beasts are "pale, squat, toadlike creatures, superhumanly strong and noxious-smelling. Moon-beasts, have no eyes, but use the mass of pink tentacles at the end of their snout to sense their surroundings."

The H. P. Lovecraft Wiki

Creatures from H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands

Shantaks

"Other views shewed the gaunt grey peaks dividing Leng from Inganok, and the monstrous shantak-birds ¹ that build nests on the ledges half way up. And they shewed likewise the curious caves near the very topmost pinnacles, and how even the boldest of the shantaks fly screaming away from them."

Fourth and fifth mention of the creature "Shantaks" in Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of the Unknown Kodath.

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¹ Shantaks are creatures that resemble large scaled birds with heads of horses . Shantaks live in the moutains near to the Plateau of Leng, in Dreamlands.

The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia

Full Text of The Dream-Quest of the Unknown Kodath, H.P. Lovecraft

Creatures from H. P. Lovecraft's Dreamlands

Zoogs

“In the tunnels of that twisted wood, whose low prodigious oaks twine groping boughs and shine dim with the phosphorescence of strange fungi, dwell the furtive and secretive zoogs¹.„

~ H. P. Lovecraft , The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

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¹Zoogs are a race of sentient forest-dwelling creatures that inhabit the Dreamlands of Earth. They are rodent like creatures about the size of a cat and have short tentical like appendages around their mouths and nose. Zoogs have a taste for flesh and may attack a human who wonders into the wood at night. They are mortal enemies of cats, as they prey upon their kittens, for they consider them a delicacy, and are preyed upon in return by adult cats.

Bakugan Figures Blind Bags

This lovely character goes by the name of Dragonnoid. My copy is moulded and painted in some garish colors

He stands approximately 60mm tall from its feet to the top of his head. I didn't measure to the tips of his wings. Why? I just didn't. If I had, that would add another 40mm to its height.

These are static miniatures. They are made from a soft, but sturdy type of plastic, which when opening the bag gave off a strong order sort of like dry cleaning fuild.

If the bags illustration is any indication as to the number of different types being offered in this offering, then there are three others available, namely:Trox, Hydorous and Nillious. There is always a chance I obtain another just like the one I have, should I try to pick another one?

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The Dark Light Years

“The Utods

There bodies are massive, animal like. Yet they possess physical and mental powers unlike anything known to men.

The Utods

They literally wallow in filth. Yet their world is one of complex philosophy and amazing technology. In addition, their intricate minds that live within their strange gigantic bodies may well determine the destiny of life on Earth.”

The Dark Light Years, Brian Aldiss, Signet, (c) 1964

A Host of Characters- Lioobee

"Although Lioobee was an artist, he looked more like a monster. His brown dragon skin would have stopped a knife. Carved silver-tipped horns marked his knees and elbows, and his huge hands, human in design, nonetheless showed eight retractable claws at the knuckles. No silver there. They were filed sharp and were buffed to a polished glow. The hands were for a strangler not the sculptor he was. His arms were high even in proportion to his ten-foot height. They brushed his knees when he stood up.

But his face gave the true nightmarish touch. Eyeless, nose-less marked only by a gash of a mouth and by a goggle-shaped region above it, where the skin was stretched drum head tight."

Grendel, Neutron Star, Larry Niven