Pelgrane Press Trail Of Cthulhu: Hideous Creatures - A Bestiary The Cthulhu Mythos

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 you may find a comprehensive look at Lovecrafts hideous creatures, from as many angles as possible. The goal is contradiction, surprise, and most especially the uncanny: the recognition of something familiar as something strange. 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.Hideous Creatures: A Best