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Shoggoth Fancier, Vol 20, No. 6

It's that time of year again. Dust off the binoculars, put on the old floppy hat, and try to spot a few of your favourites. Unknown Kadath, Innsmouth and the Mountains of Madness are very popular this time of year, so book early.

An accurate field guide is, as ever, indispensable. We recommend Formless Abominations: A Spotter's Guide, now in its 4th edition, with an excellent introduction written by Dr. Muñoz of Miskatonic University. Some other titles of note have appeared in publishers' advance copy catalogs recently and are worthy additions to any enthusiast's library:
  • - Frommer's Asylums! on 6 sanity points a day
  • - So They Say You're Mad: self-help for the starkly raving
  • - Stentor's Big Red Book of Alogical Postulates
  • - The Condensed Psychosis Checklist
  • - Baby's First Necronomicon
And now it's time for Cthulhu's Cthecklist Cthallenge. This month's checklist challenge is sent to us by Mr. Derleth of Arkham, Mass.:
  1. Buff-bellied Shoggoth
  2. Northern Whiskered Yugg
  3. Pileated Star-spawn
  4. Rufous-capped Nyarlathotep
  5. Dark Young
  6. Townsend's Mi-go
  7. Elder Things
If you can spot them all, send us your name, address, and a pint of blood on a 3 x 5 card and we'll enter you in the draw to win a beautiful triple-stitched designer canvas straightjacket, delivered direct to your door by burly white-coated many-angled men.

Until next time, you cyclopean and eldritch polyps.