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Dunwich Horror- The death of Wilbur Whateley

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Based on one of H.P. Lovecraft's novels "The Dunwich Horror". One of my favorites.

My own interpretation of his looks, added more tentacles than it was told in the book but I followed the descriptions of his features closely as possible.

"The thing that lay half-bent on its side in a foetid pool of greenish-yellow and tarry stickiness was almost nine feet tall, and the dog had torn off all the clothing and some of the skin.... It was partly human, beyond a doubt, with very manlike hands and head, and the goatish, chinless face had the stamp of the Whateleys upon it. But the torso and lower parts of the body were teratologically fabulous, so that only generous clothing could ever have enabled it to walk on earth unchallenged or uneradicated.Above the waist it was semi-anthropomorphic; though its chest...had the leathery, reticulated hide of a crocodile or alligator. The back was piebald with yellow and black, and dimly suggested the squamous covering of certain snakes. Below the waist, though, it was the worst; for here all human resemblance left off and sheer phantasy began. The skin was thickly covered with coarse black fur, and from the abdomen a score of long greenish-grey tentacles with red sucking mouths protruded limply.Their arrangement was odd, and seemed to follow the symmetries of some cosmic geometry unknown to earth or the solar system. On each of the hips, deep set in a kind of pinkish, ciliated orbit, was what seemed to be a rudimentary eye; whilst in lieu of a tail there depended a kind of trunk or feeler with purple annular markings, and with many evidences of being an undeveloped mouth or throat. The limbs, save for their black fur, roughly resembled the hind legs of prehistoric earth's giant, and terminated in ridgy-veined pads that were neither hooves nor claws. (From The Dunwich Horror.)

I used :iconnull-entity: photo  :thumb364497668: as inspiration stock for the pose.
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NyarlyRaeJepsen's avatar

This was the most depressing HPL story I've read. What's even worse is that Wilbur Whately is based on Lovecraft himself, being "ugly" because that's what Lovecraft's mom called her son.