Monday, September 13, 2010

Lifestyles of the Eldritch and Squamous

Practically immortal, they spend most of their sunless days in amphibian splendor far under the sea, wearing their tall golden tiaras and other exotically-engraved jewelry.  They're not averse, though, to trading with the upper-earth men, offering gold and the secrets of propitious fishing in exchange for idol worship and the occasional human sacrifice.  And on every April 30th and October 31st they swim to the surface and hop ashore to the churches of coastal Massachusetts to take part in some of that old-time religious worship--ceremonies inevitably followed by frolicsome party mixers.  But then it's back down to their underwater hideaways in Y'ha-nthlei, their phosphorescent palaces of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences.  There they'll wait patiently for the influx of new citizens, all the while drinking in the world with their bulging, unblinking eyes.  These greyish-green fish-frogs with a passion for miscegenation are none Other than...

[Answer appears in the Comments section below]

1 comment:

Joe Nazare said...

Answer: The Deep Ones (stars of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth")