Feb 12
Click for full imageBibliomancer Comments: Who knew the spawn of Cthulhu was a Garbage Pail Kid?
Published 1971
Here is the wraparound cover in all of its glory:
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(Average: 7.39 out of 10)
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Bibliomancer Comments: Who knew the spawn of Cthulhu was a Garbage Pail Kid?
Published 1971
Here is the wraparound cover in all of its glory:
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February 12th, 2016 at 11:50 am
I read that as the ‘Spam of Cthulhu’. And there it is, down front.
February 12th, 2016 at 11:57 am
Believe it or not, several years ago I actually WROTE a short about “the spam of Cthulhu” (and I”m linking to it here not because the story is any good, but it certainly fits this thread):
http://aryngve.com/reading/precinct20/thelastweblog.html
February 12th, 2016 at 1:07 pm
This brings out the cosmic terror of Lovecraft’s work in the way that words never could.
February 12th, 2016 at 1:16 pm
That dude with the oversized head… he’d give the C.S. Lewis head a run for its money.
February 12th, 2016 at 1:24 pm
Don’t you hate it when you turn up for a party and some monster crab has the same haircut as you.
February 12th, 2016 at 1:25 pm
@SI: I KNOW! That stinks to high heaven.
February 12th, 2016 at 1:28 pm
Back cover. Is that our boy Bokrug the Beleagured getting a case of the crabs?
February 12th, 2016 at 1:34 pm
@DEADSTUFF – It’s a Lovecraft based health spa!
February 12th, 2016 at 2:46 pm
@DSwBT My thought on looking at that back cover was, “Where can I hire a crab masseur?”
February 12th, 2016 at 3:05 pm
@DSWBT – I have procured the full wraparound cover photo from Bibliomancer and posted it for all to enjoy.
February 12th, 2016 at 3:18 pm
So, it’s actually ThE sPa Of CtHuLhU?
February 12th, 2016 at 4:53 pm
Awesome Lovecraftian covers like this exist and Guillermo Del Toro couldn’t get a studio to finance “At the Mountains of Madness”. I want giant blind albino penguins chasing Tom Cruise dammit!
February 12th, 2016 at 5:05 pm
The gorgon’s gorn off.
February 12th, 2016 at 5:15 pm
The survival odds of a crab with platypus feet instead of standard crab claws must be pretty low. However, having pink furry wrist cuffs might make the slide toward certain doom a bit more pleasant.
February 12th, 2016 at 5:23 pm
Y’know, this place looks like a tidal cave. I’m not sure why the red crab is holding a party with his friends the big-headed people, the green lizard and the red monkey-thing, but what I am certain of is that none of these people have much to do with Cthulhu.
Unless they’re all his grandkids. Which might explain something.
February 12th, 2016 at 5:44 pm
Clearly illustrated by someone who’s never read any Lovecraft, but has taken a lot of drugs whilst reading children’s fantasy.
February 12th, 2016 at 6:54 pm
@Ikari Gendo: Let’s agree now that any happy endings are between you, the crab and H.P. Lovecraft.
February 12th, 2016 at 9:07 pm
Hello. My name is Shawn Cthulhu. You’ve heard of my dad.
February 12th, 2016 at 9:07 pm
I was going to say something about binomial nomenclature and how we can’t call something a crab that has fur…but then I remembered I was looking at a GSS Lovecraft cover and just decided to forget it.
February 12th, 2016 at 9:31 pm
Concept art for the next Tim Burton movie: The nightmare under the sea-side rock.
February 13th, 2016 at 3:04 am
Once upon a time, Medusa-boy went to visit his friend Hand-bird who had the misfortune to be locked up in Crab-jail. Medusa-boy was angered seeing his friend incarcerated, and hoped his present of a strawberry gave Hand-bird some comfort.
Hand-bird’s other friend, Frill-necked Lizard, also wanted to visit, but had to undergo an invasive search due to being reptily profiled.
February 13th, 2016 at 3:35 am
Backstage at the World Stare-Out Championships
February 13th, 2016 at 4:15 am
And the Unicorn’s!, like, “Man, I thought I looked weird.”
September 26th, 2019 at 1:51 am
THE STAIRWAY TO SARNATH! perhaps? Our man Bokrug is there.
(Led Zep’s first idea, thankfully nixed. All these critters were swept out in the spring cleaning for the May Queen.)