Hideous Creatures: a Bestiary of the Cthulhu Mythos

Kenneth Hite, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Becky Annison

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4.00 · 1 ratings · 368 pages · Published: 01 Jan 2018
Hideous Creatures: a Bestiary of the Cthulhu Mythos by Kenneth Hite, Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, Becky Annison
Lovecraft created his various “shadowy congeners” because the stories of vampires, werewolves, and even ghosts had become too familiar and too formulaic to evoke true horror. Almost a century after he wrote, his own monstrous races have likewise begun to seem like comfortable story furniture rather than unnerving signals that the world is horrible and wrong.

In Hideous Creatures: a Bestiary of the Cthulhu Mythos, we present a comprehensive look at Lovecraft’s hideous creatures, from as many angles as we can. Our goal is contradiction, surprise, and most especially the uncanny: the recognition of something familiar as something weird. As in the “Gods and Titans” section of the Trail of Cthulhu core book, this book deliberately contradicts itself, blurring boundaries and erasing certainties in the name of the uncanny. In your campaign, these variant truths might be misunderstandings, legends, heresies, or deliberate lies spread by the creatures to lull their foes into a false sense of familiarity.
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