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What’s going on guys - as per usual, I’ll be your spirit guide Jack Finch - as we once
again take to the altar, don our crimson robes and speak the names that shan't be spoken
- and take a look at the Top 5 Scariest Lovecraftian Monsters - Part 2.
Now - make no mistake, I could big up the brilliance of H.P Lovecraft until I was blue
in the face - the undoubted grandfather of horror and strange tales of science fiction.
Since that first moment he scrawled the name Cthulhu onto an empty page - he’s spawned
one of the most twisted fictional canons that the world has ever seen.
Well, you lapped up Part 1 - so let’s keep it going - and see what else is lurking at
the bottom of the abyss.
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Kicking off at Number 5 - Y’golonac
A name that makes me realise the bizarre complexities of the Welsh language.
Y’golonac - also known as The Defiler is one of the more - nastier, shall we say - of
the Great Old Ones.
He is renowned as the god of perversion and depravity - and that’s just not the human
perception of taboo - but anything that can be conceived by a sane - or otherwise - sapient
being.
This guy is so ready to burst into the human plane and cause some disgusting chaos - that
merely speaking his name will usher him into our world.
Which - I guess I better stop saying his name then.
The Defiler’s true form is uncertain - but when he possesses a human host he appears
as a grotesquely obese man, lacking a head and neck - and a gaping mouth in the palm
of each hand.
He seeks those that read perverse and forbidden literature - offering the summoner the otherwise
dubious honor of becoming his priest - or, just simply eating them.
Next up at Number 4 - Cthylla
Also known as The Kraken, or the Secret One - Cthylla is one of the twisted offspring
of Cthulhu and Idh-yaa.
She has the appearance of a gigantic - red bodied - black-ringed and six-eyed octopus
with small wings - so, I guess she kinda takes after her father.
Similarly, like Cthulhu she can alter her bodies proportions at will.
Cthylla’s first major appearance was In His Daughter’s Darkling Womb - written by
Tina L. Jens - where she was captured by marine researchers, believing her to be a rare specimen
of an undiscovered octopus species.
Obviously, as you can imagine - it didn’t go well.
She also appears In The Hall Of The Yellow King by Peter Rawlik, in her humanoid form
of a young girl - as a possible bride for the unspeakable one - Hastur.
The thing that makes Cthylla so important though - and the reason why she is so heavily
guarded by her cultists and followers - is that should Cthulhu somehow die, his Secret
Daughter Cthylla will give birth to him once again.
How’s that for a pushy parent?
Coming in at Number 3 - Dagon
Also known as Father Dagon - this guy is pretty damn huge when it comes to fishy amphibious
cults.
Dagon - is an enormous deity that presides over the Deep Ones - the fishlike race indigenous
to the Earth’s oceans - and the ones responsible for the weird goings on at Innsmouth, the
basis for most of Lovecraft’s fictional work.
First seen in his titular short story - Dagon - he’s mentioned extensively throughout
the Cthulhu mythos in the ranks of the Great Old Ones - alongside his consort and mate,
Mother Hydra.
He is worshipped by the Esoteric Order of Dagon - a shadowy cult based in Innsmouth,
that go to great lengths to maintaining the existence of their ocean-dwelling god.
Make no mistake about it - Father Dagon is absolutely huge, dwarfing the size of ancient
whales.
While apparently immortal, his eternal lifespan may actually be attributed to his relationship
with the Star Spawn - a cosmic race of Cthulhu like beings who sometimes select formidable
specimens from a given species, to protect - nurture and empower - for seemingly, reasons
known only to them.
Swinging in at Number 2 - Ghatanothoa
AKA - The Dark God - or, if you’re being more precise - literally the most grotesque
and ugliest creature in the entire Cthulhu Mythos - and that’s saying something.
Ghatanothoa is the firstborn of Cthulhu, spawned by Idh-yaa on the planet Xoth, whose origin
is first laid out in The Thing in the Pit by Lin Carter.
He is a huge amorphous monstrosity, whose appearance is so hideous that anyone who gazes
upon it - is literally petrified into a living cadaver.
The victim is permanently immobilized - the body taking on the consistency of leather,
yet the real kicker - their brain is preserved indefinitely and remains fully aware.
Wow - what a way to go.
The Dark God was brought to Earth from the planet Yuggoth - assisted by an ancient, alien
race - possibly the bug like Mi-go.
On Earth, they built a colossal fortress atop Mount Yaddith-Gho, on the lost continent of
Mu - and they sealed Ghatanothoa inside the mountain - where it remains to this day, worshipped
by a strange, secret cult.
No thank you.
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - Hastur
And really - it Hastur be.
Sorry - the Cthulhu mythos has no place for puns, especially when we’re addressing the
name of Hastur the Unspeakable, perhaps the most bleak and utterly evil entity in the
entirety of Lovecraftian fiction.
Him Who Is Not to be Named - The King in Yellow and The Yellow Sign.
Although he is most famously associated with Lovecraft, Hastur is only ever mentioned once,
in The Whisperer of Darkness.
He was originally a creation of Ambrose Bierce - and also appears in the 1895 horror collection,
The King in Yellow - by Robert W. Chambers.
Hastur is defined as a Great Old One - but there is potentially much more to him.
He is the spawn of Yog-Sothoth - and the half-brother of Cthulhu.
He is also possibly the Magnum Innominandum, the overarching mystery of the Lovecraft mythos
- that culminates as The Nameless Mist.
Hastur appears in several vile forms - The Feaster from Afar, a black, shriveled, flying
monstrosity, dripping with tentacles tipped with razor-sharp talons that pierce a victim's
skull and siphon out their brain.
And also - The King in Yellow - which was also referenced in the mesmerising first season
of True Detective.
Time is a flat circle - check it out.
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