Brown Jenkin

One of the strange things about Lovecraft is that, for all his scifiesque invention of indescribable cone-shaped creatures and crab-shaped fungi from other planets, his scariest monster is one that belongs more in a New England witchcraft tale. I refer, of course, to “Brown Jenkin,” a creature I’ve discussed here before, found in Lovecraft’s “Dreams in the Witch House.”

The model below isn’t bad, but still not quite as scary as the description in the story. For one thing, the paws are supposed to be little human hands; in this model they are still too claw-like. Also, the face doesn’t seem quite right.