Ya'll know I love
the MAAMs (Multi-Armed Ape Monsters),
the Yeticorns, and them crazy creatures from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos.
Well, did you know the
Gnoph-keh is all three?
Hot Cha!
Sure, Lovecraft created the
Mi-Go and Smith created the
Voormis and Derleth created Ithaqua, but it turns out there's another
yeti-esque bad boy in the mythos. And this guy's got ONE HORN and SIX LIMBS.
In the short story "
The Horror In the Museum" (1932), Lovecraft writes:
"A small bulge in the canvas far to the right suggested the sharp horn of Gnoph-keh, the hairy myth-thing of the Greenland ice, that walked sometimes on two legs, sometimes on four, and sometimes on six."
Thanks to the Call of the Cthulhu pen-and-paper rpg, there are now numerous artistic depictions of the beastie. Folks took that one bit of sentence from 1932 and just ran with it. Observe:
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First black and white image is a copy from a Lluisot's (spanish illustrator) picture.
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