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Yamada Gouki (山田剛毅), aka goking, has been illustrating creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos and similar horrors in an ukiyo-e style: Cyaegha, Igolnaku, The Thing That Plays with Fate, Cthonian, Byakhee, and would like to wish you a very Merry Fishmas from Innsmouth. You can find more illustrations on his Twitter or his blog, 2D6. posted by 23 (11 comments total) 27 users marked this as a favorite
 
Thanks for the unutterable URLs to indescribable images. Incidentally, someone needs to write a contemporary Lovecraftian short story entitled "The Kawaii of Cthulhu".
posted by Doktor Zed at 6:03 AM on May 29, 2014


someone needs to write a contemporary Lovecraftian short story entitled "The Kawaii of Cthulhu".

About that....
posted by sukeban at 6:14 AM on May 29, 2014 [2 favorites]


Oh, and I've coveted this Cthulhu doll for years. (It's the 1/6 scale, Barbie-sized dollfie pluses).
posted by sukeban at 6:16 AM on May 29, 2014


i keep pushing money at my monitor but it wont sell picture what happen?
posted by robocop is bleeding at 6:52 AM on May 29, 2014 [1 favorite]


"Igolnaku" is actually our old friend Y'Golonac.

Here's some more. Links are to blog posts containing images instead of directly to images themselves -- you can then click through to the image, or read/Google Translate the text. I did it this way, even though it's a bit inconvenient, so as to avoid separating the image from its context:
Nightgaunt
Vulthoom (Martian overmind plant created by Clark Ashton Smith)
Glaaki (from Ramsey Campbell's Severn Valley)
The Whateley Twins
I think these are related to Quachil Utaus
Father Dagon
Zombie attack
Shub-Niggurath
Maybe an Unseen Servant, deceased?
Lose D10/D100 SAN, it's Azathoth!
Not sure about this one, or this one, or this one, or this one.

Now that's a Cthulhu of a different color!
A variety of beasties done up in a cute style.
I think this is HPL himself.

There may be more, I only went a few pages back in his archives.
posted by JHarris at 7:04 AM on May 29, 2014 [2 favorites]


(Argh, the middle two "this one" links are broken, and they show up in the comment edit form as a mass of hard-to-fix Unicode encodes, too much to fix in five minutes, so I'm going to leave them broken.)
posted by JHarris at 7:05 AM on May 29, 2014


Also want to say, times like this, I really miss Artw.
posted by JHarris at 7:06 AM on May 29, 2014 [4 favorites]


Oh, and because I'm still tickled by it (as in by a nightgaunt): Tales of the Plush Cthulhu.
posted by JHarris at 7:08 AM on May 29, 2014


That byakhee is a nightgaunt. People make that error all the time in Providence. The trick is to look for the face.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:32 AM on May 29, 2014 [2 favorites]


In a less pedantic mode, these are very pretty.
posted by GenjiandProust at 7:37 AM on May 29, 2014




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