Elder Thing

Though I’m on record as saying it’s impossible to depict Lovecraft’s monsters visually (given the way he purposefully undercuts his own descriptions of those monsters in the very moment of offering them), some attempts are better than others. And THIS ILLUSTRATION of the Elder Things in “At the Mountains of Madness” may be the most suitably grotesque rendering I’ve ever seen. No wonder the dogs couldn’t stand these creatures!

There are dozens of other Lovecraft monsters there as well. Hat tip, Tim Morton, who I believe hat-tipped Zachary St. Denys Price in turn.