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Originally posted by Bones
what is the origin of this squid like beast?
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Hail Bones!
You deserve a decent answer.
He has the head very similar to a cuttlefish
Lovecraft (a pulp horror/fantasy writer circa 1920s) describes him thusly…
“If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings... It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence...”
from the short story “The Call of Cthulhu”
Here is a sketch of him by H.P., himself
