RAFFLE WINNER

Hey guys! I'm happy to announce the winner of the *after* raffle is................

ORGAN BANK! 

Thanks to everyone that bought a ticket. I'll be making a donation to the Sameer Project and if anyone is interested you can learn more & donate to them directly here.

I'm soooo sorry about being late in announcing the raffle winner. Unfortunately, I had to say goodbye to my cat Vampira this week. It was unexpected and really heartbreaking. 

THE SHADOW IN THE SHED

THE SHADOW IN THE SHED

"And this Shadow, or whatever it was, was a most peculiar and unusual thing. It seemed circular in shape, tubelike; about five feet through, as near as they could tell, it extended from the dirt floor of The Shed clear to the roof, and up beyond the rafters inside it was too dim to see clearly."

"The thing was of a nondescript color, mostly gray."

"He began poking at two shiny objects, working them across the close-packed dirt floor,ignoring the Shadow, which was rippling and twisting as though annoyed by the intrusion."

"Suddenly they stopped short, for the Shadow now seemed subtly different. More colorful, more solid, and a movement to it that was sort of....an aliveness!" 

The strange and evil mistiness was curling and entwining itself all about and around the cow. Thicker and thicker grew the folds of Shadow-substance."

"The colors of the thing were more pronounced, now. Flaming, angry reds, flashing blues, sickly greens and yellows."

E. Everett Evans, The Shed

Read Scott's blog-post about this story here.

WILL ANNOUNCE RAFFLE WINNER WEDNESDAY

 WILL ANNOUNCE RAFFLE WINNER WEDNESDAY

I'll announce the winner of the raffle that was a benefit for the Sameer Project this coming Wednesday. 

TWISTED TOAD

TWISTED TOAD

"In an instant every moving entity was electrified; and forming at once into a ceremonial procession, the nightmare horde slithered away in quest of the sound—goat, satyr, and aegipan, incubus, succuba, and lemur, twisted toad and shapeless elemental, dog-faced howler and silent strutter in darkness—all led by the abominable naked phosphorescent thing that had squatted on the carved golden throne, and that now strode insolently bearing in its arms the glassy-eyed corpse of the corpulent old man."

H.P. Lovecraft, The Horror At Red Hook

NON-TERRESTRIAL BEING

NON-TERRESTRIAL BEING

"187 Dream of awaking in vast hall of strange architecture, with sheet-covered forms on slabs—in positions similar to one’s own. Suggestions of disturbingly non-human outlines under sheets. One of the objects moves and throws off sheet—non-terrestrial being revealed. Sugg. that oneself is also such a being—mind has become transferred to body on other planet." 

H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book

MARTIN'S BEACH HORROR

MARTIN'S BEACH HORROR

"The object was some fifty feet in length, of roughly cylindrical shape, and about ten feet in diameter. It was unmistakably a gilled fish in its major affiliations; but with certain curious modifications such as rudimentary forelegs and six-toed feet in place of pectoral fins, which prompted the widest speculation. Its extraordinary mouth, its thick and scaly hide, and its single, deep-set eye were wonders scarcely less remarkable than its colossal dimensions;" 

H.P. Lovecraft & Sonia H. Greene, The Horror At Martin's Beach

FISHER FROM THE OUTSIDE

FISHERS FROM THE OUTSIDE

"The ancient Fishers from Outside—Were there not tales the high-priest told, Of how they found the worlds of old, And took what pelf their fancy spied?" 

H.P. Lovecraft, The Outpost

"One glimpse of the repulsive thing with its one leg and one glaring Cyclopean eye and hideous, hooked, fang-lined beak-"

Lin Carter & H.P. Lovecraft, Fishers From the Outiside

NEW FUNDRAISER

 

Hey everyone! While searching through drawings for last month's Many Lands Mutual Aid fundraiser I stumbled on the originals for Scott Nicolay's long out of print novella *after* published through Dim Shores. 

So I'm going to raffle off the lot as a new fundraiser for the Sameer Project. 

"A donations based aid initiative, led by Palestinians in the diaspora, working to supply emergency shelter and aid to displaced families in Gaza."

Each raffle ticket will cost $6 (a little more in Europe & the rest of the world) and will enter you in a chance to win this combo!

Included will be Sam's very last copy of *after*, three full color postcards of the interior art, the original inked pages for the cover art & all three interior illustrations and the original pencil drawings for two of the interior illustrations (sadly the pencils for the cover & the third interior are lost to time & my negligence). The raffle will end Friday May 9th, and I'll use a random number generator to choose the winner. 

Get a raffle ticket below or in the you-blogsoth store!

____________________________________________________

1 RAFFLE TICKET FOR A CHANCE TO WIN:

• The last remaining copy of Scott Nicolay's *after*.
• Full color postcards of interior art.
• Original inked drawings of cover & interior illustrations.
• Original pencil drawings of 2 interior illustrations.

Shipping incl.

USA $6.00 USD Canada $8.00 USD World $10.00 USD

DECATON

DECATON

"There are exactly 100 decatons, the lowest order of officials found in Nirvana, These creatures appear as 10-tentacled spheres on stumpy legs and are overseers of the physical welfare of the base modrons. One deeaton is assigned to each sector of Nirvana, while the remaining 36 serve with the hextons commanding the armed forces of the plane."

Gary Gygax, Monster Manual II

OCULON

OCULON

"The oculon is an enchanted monster created by a high-level magic-user to act as an assistant or guardian. The process of creating one is long and quite involved, but the resulting being is fairly powerful because of the many special skills it has. An oculon is humanoid in shape, though only vaguely so, and is 4 feet tall at the shoulder. Instead of a human head, the oculon has a flexible neck about 3 feet in length with a single large eye at the end. The neck is 2” in diameter and the eye is 4” across."

"The body of an oculon is light grey in color, and slightly glossy. The cornea of the eye is dark grey, and the pupil of the eye is black."

Roger E. Moore, Dragon Magazine #53