24 May 2021

Monster May(hem): Cthulhu and Cultists

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu... aw crap, I used the same first line last year. Let me come up with something else.

[thinks for a couple of minutes]

OK, let's just move on.

22 May 2021

The Old Ones are no longer smiling on me

This is it. This is the point where I lose my sanity and Alicia has to have the spare room redecorated with rubber tiles.

20 May 2021

Monster May(hem): Yog-Sothoth

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. 

18 May 2021

Monster May(hem): Cthonian


There's a surprising number of creatures in the Cthulhu mythos that aren't HP Lovecraft inventions, and cthonians are one of them.

17 May 2021

Monster May(hem): Hunting Horrors


Another pair of Cthulhu: Death May Die minis, another Lovecraft invention that has bugger all backstory.

16 May 2021

Monster May(hem): Star Spawn


Star spawn are another creation of HP Lovecraft, although they're only briefly mentioned in the novella Beyond The Mountains of Madness. They're creatures that came to Earth millions of years ago and waged war with the Elder Things, eventually colonising the land while the Elder Things retreated to the oceans.