HOME | DD
Loneanimator — The Unnamable
#arkham #creature #demon #lovecraft #monster #unnameable
Published: 2016-06-28 18:30:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 2789; Favourites: 98; Downloads: 15
Redirect to original
Description
"It was the pit—the maelstrom—the ultimate abomination. Carter, it was the unnamable!"Related content
Comments: 45
Thanks! It's unnecessary to try and show the Unnamable, but what the heck..
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
A Randolph Carter adventure AFTER he lost the key to deep dreaming, and could no longer go to Ulthar, Celephais, and fayer places in sleep.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
According to S T Joshi this story takes place after "The Statement of Randolph Carter", but before the Silver Key stories, "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" being his last appearence and the last known fate of Carter.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
According to Brian Lumley, Carter did reach the Dreamworld where he now lives in a Cornish estate. He had a mansion built to Cornish specifications and employs butlers and staff dressed in British livery. He was homesick and so made the estate as British as he could. He assists Titus Crow in "Clock of Dreams" . No explanation of how he rid himself of Zkauba's persona.
Maybe that story,too, is rejectable. I was near saturation point with all these oft-contradictory Mythos tales by authors who had no grasp of Lovecraft's vision.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
I guess my Un is truly unnameable. It's form is such that the human brain refuses to accept it and blanks it out. You see nothing in front of you except what SHOULD be there, but it attacks you just as hard ! One of the monsters Casper left behind when he freed most of those caged in Dr.Ottermoel's zoo in Domdaniel (my take on Hogwarts).
Too dangerous !
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
A friend of mine made a film adaptation of "The Unnameable" circa 1993, under the title "Arkham Cemetery" -- and I've just checked and it's not on YouTube. Never mind.
No monstrosity visible, I'm afraid. Just headstones, trees, and cumulus clouds changing color with weird sound effects.
No effects would have been good as the above, though!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Oh, that's cool! You're not really supposed to show the Unnamable, I guess -just letting the audience make up their own horrors in the head. I actually planned to make my own video adaptation in the early 2000's, but never got around to it, and that's just as well. There seems to be a number of homemade versions out there.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
You are a master when it comes to illustrating indescribable Lovecraftian horrors.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thank you! I try my best
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Actually, I think it's a lady monster..
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Just stay out of the vicinity of Arkham, and I think you'll be fine.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Having read the story in question a few times (and seen the forgettable film adaptation once) I would say you did well. I do suspect Lovecraft would have praised it very much.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Thanks 
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Or, as some people would say, "Holy crap! It's my ex-wife!"
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Or simply ex-girlfriend. Just as frightening!
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Oh, Yes!
I have one of those....
...still!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Great depiction from a great story. The Unnameable is intimidating to draw (at least for me) but i think you hit it out of the park.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I just go with what leaps into my head, without over-analyzing. Which means I usually forget some details, but it's the easiest way of tackling subjects for me
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Love that the comment was well received!
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Oh fuck.
Lovecraft would hate you, because you have succeeded in accurately depicting the quintessence of all his "indescribable" horrors...
👍: 1 ⏩: 1
Glad you think so
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
I love your lines and toothbrush/ink-splatters. Groovy.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
So you noticed the toothbrush spatter
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Yup, used to do this in college on my art course, 20'odd year ago, mate. V effective use of a toothbrush.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
Thanks! It's my pleasure to make these images
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
always thought it'd be funny if some of these monsters and bizarre beings were just as scared of us as we are them.
Unnameable: "AHHHH!!! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!?!?!"
👍: 1 ⏩: 2
I think at lest Elder Things had that reaction in The Mountains Of Madness story
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
then they saw what the humans had done to their friend 'Timmy', and things went completely to hell from there.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
"There's nothing there, Martha."
"I tell you, Henry, there is something on top of the bed."
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Yes, that was a very underwhelming version of that story
👍: 0 ⏩: 0