There is nothing so iconic, innocuous, or fear inspiring as the scarecrow. Sometimes called a “hay-man,” which doesn’t really do anything to assuage the fear of onlookers, it is one of the words oldest symbols. There are dozens of types from all around the world, and most cultures have tales of the creatures that come […]
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Triple Threat: Fluttermouth
[The following creature is from a nightmare I had. Enjoy.] A strange creature the fluttermouth begins life as a large fungal bloom the size of a basketball and continue this way until encountering a living being at which point they eject huge numbers of spores. Once they’ve infested a living being they grow until they […]
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Ghouls look exactly human beings, except their faces, which are vaguely jackal-like. Their skin has an odd rubbery look to it, and their feet are half-hooved in the front. Their teeth and fingernails are pointed and obviously made for tearing flesh. Additionally, their eyes glow a reddish hue in the dark (much like a snakes). […]
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Zanies or whitefaces (or more archaically allaharu or scurra) appear to look like clowns. They are not demons or ghosts, but in fact a cursed sub-race of humanity. Though most of them do live in other planes or dimensions using special portals that only they know about to drift in and out of the real […]
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Ghasts are dangerous humanoids that lurk in dark and desolate places. While they are much bigger than a human being they still have a humanish face (though they have no nose, just two holes despite their amazing sense of smell). Their rough leathery skin ranges from a dull rusty color to a dark grey. Their […]
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Barghest Barghests are large horse-sized canines that resembles a cross between a hyena and a wolf with mangy fur and sharp-pointed ears. Barghests are found just in just about any wilderness and hunt in packs, they are especially sensitive to prey with supernatural capabilities whom they find delightfully tasty. They possess animal level intellect but […]
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[The following creature is from a nightmare I had. Enjoy.] The tatou is a vicious apex predator typically found in swamplands or jungles. Resembling a horrid combination of snapping turtle, salamander, and armadillo the tatou has heavily armored plate-like skin that is resistant to small arms fire and all but immune to most melee weapons. […]
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Shan’tacs are huge, elephantine horse-headed beasts with long sinuous necks and vague bat-like wings. They tend to lair in cold places with lots of caves or darkness (thus accounting for their rime encrusted wings). Shan’tacs and Nightgaunts are natural enemies and always fight if the two find themselves in the same area as the other. […]
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Guggies are huge, hairy giants with a vertically split mouth and long spindly arms like that of an orangutan ending with four hands (two on each arm) instead of the regular two. The gods have banished the Guggies to the Netherworld for the performance of horrific rituals. Guggies will happily eat any strangers they encounter, […]
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Obscene scavengers haunting dead cities and other abandoned places, wamps have pale, vaguely egg-shaped bodies and nine swaying, web-footed leg/arms. The ‘head’ is eyeless and mouthless, with sharp-edged ears and multiple ‘nose’ organs. It has four eyes, one on each of four different limbs, with four mouths, also on four different limbs. It has a […]
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