Trail Of Cthulhu Hideous Creatures A Bestiary Of The Cthulhu Mythos

A collection of 31 Lovecraftian monsters written for Trail of Cthulhu but usable in any Mythos horror game. Featuring nine all-new creatures that have never taken stat-block form in any game before! Lovecraft created his ?shadowy congeners? because the stories of vampires and werewolves had become too familiar and formulaic to evoke true horror. Almost a century later 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. Creatures are not just antagonists to fight or flee from; they are entire adventures by themselves leaving physical traces occult clues and madness in their eldritch wake. Hideous Creatures: A Bestiary of the Cthulhu Mythos is the Trail of Cthulhu bestiary written by Mythos giant Kenneth Hite and fellow experts Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan Becky Annison Helen Gould and Ruth Tillman in the tradition of the award-winning Book of Unremitting Horror and the 13th Age Bestiary.