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Lovecraft - Martense Descendants, Devolved Humans
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Published: 2020-12-18 17:56:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 9764; Favourites: 165; Downloads: 0
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Description A family of xenophobic degenerates, slowly isolating themselves from the outside world more and more... ultimtely reduced to this, after generations of incest. 


"When they had thinned out enough to be glimpsed as separate organisms, I saw that they were dwarfed, deformed hairy devils or apes-monstrous and diabolic caricatures of the monkey tribe." 

"The object was nauseous; a filthy whitish gorilla thing with sharp yellow fangs and matted fur. It was the ultimate product of mammalian degeneration; the frightful outcome of isolated spawning, multiplication, and cannibal nutrition above and below the ground; the embodiment of all the snarling and chaos and grinning fear that lurk behind life. It had looked at me as it died, and its eyes had the same odd quality that marked those other eyes which had stared at me underground and excited cloudy recollections. One eye was blue, the other brown."

H.P. Lovecraft, The Lurking Fear

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Comments: 46

almaghostalmaghost [2024-04-11 05:35:40 +0000 UTC]

Yo! I'm writing an article about crafting good horror stories for a website and I was wondering if I could use your image completely credited and linked ofc. Hope to hear back from you

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MtheMagnificentMtheMagnificent [2024-03-23 01:25:42 +0000 UTC]

One Martense decided to leave the old homestead, go out into the outside world and mesh with society. He wrote to a college friend about his intent to not return to his kinfolk. The correspondence , a long deep one, suddenly stopped. After several letters were unresponded to, the narrator paid a visit to the slovenly family and was told that he had died in a fall. They showed him the grave.


Suspiciious, he dug it up and examined the body in the casket. The head trauma was most likely from repeated blows from a heavy club. He reported his suspicions to the authorities. Word of mouth ostracized the Martense fami;y.  The house appeared to be finally abandoned. Yet a storm,years later,  followed by a horrendous attack on villagers , led to the events in the story.

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MtheMagnificentMtheMagnificent [2024-03-17 14:44:35 +0000 UTC]

The AI (?)  of DevArt keeps putting up garbage if even one letter is off.

I also had unrequested jumps and couldn't get back...

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MtheMagnificentMtheMagnificent [2024-03-17 14:40:46 +0000 UTC]

I favorited this, NOT for an adorable pic, BUT to have a link to you. I have had trouble keying in your name ,

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NewHorizontStudioNewHorizontStudio [2021-01-04 12:13:51 +0000 UTC]

cool

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PapierowySzczurPapierowySzczur [2020-12-23 16:10:00 +0000 UTC]

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to PapierowySzczur [2020-12-23 17:53:08 +0000 UTC]

Good luck and be careful looking out through the windows :D

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PapierowySzczurPapierowySzczur In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2020-12-25 08:39:32 +0000 UTC]

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Chaosfive-55Chaosfive-55 [2020-12-21 00:42:34 +0000 UTC]

Happy Families!  :D

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to Chaosfive-55 [2020-12-21 07:41:22 +0000 UTC]

They don't look very happy to me, but I will trust your judgement!

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EmmetEarwaxEmmetEarwax [2020-12-20 22:44:57 +0000 UTC]

Arthuyr Jermayne. When he found out his true ancestry, his reaction was most extreme !!

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Chaosfive-55Chaosfive-55 In reply to EmmetEarwax [2020-12-21 00:42:09 +0000 UTC]

Arthur Jermyn did what he did to prevent something like this. :nod:

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grazattgrazatt [2020-12-19 14:20:44 +0000 UTC]

You really captured their look

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to grazatt [2020-12-19 14:23:44 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!!

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SkyPotatoFireSkyPotatoFire [2020-12-19 10:55:31 +0000 UTC]

Well done.

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to SkyPotatoFire [2020-12-19 11:38:31 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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dlambeautdlambeaut [2020-12-18 21:45:29 +0000 UTC]

I like that story. I always remember the part when a guy gets his face chewed after peering out of a window, and the turn and scares the hell outa’ the protagonist. Maybe the first jump-scare of  history

The baby cannibal is a nice touch. Good job, buddy!

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MtheMagnificentMtheMagnificent In reply to dlambeaut [2024-03-23 01:33:15 +0000 UTC]

Lovecraft did a scribble pic of the scene. The faceless corpse and the appalled live man holding him ...

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to dlambeaut [2020-12-19 10:00:31 +0000 UTC]

I had the feeling that people would like the little one. :D

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dlambeautdlambeaut In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2020-12-19 14:21:57 +0000 UTC]

Aaah, babies... Even the cannibalistic incestuous ones are cute...

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niggidduniggiddu [2020-12-18 21:29:30 +0000 UTC]

Nie znałem tej historii. Jest dostępna w tłumaczeniu czy tylko w oryginale?

Swoją drogą, ksenofobiczni, samoizolujący się degeneraci to w sumie niepierwsza autokrytyka stylu życia Lovecrafta. Widocznie był świadomy patologicznego potencjału swoich poglądów i to dodatkowo przysporzyło mu powodów do depresji i choroby.

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to niggiddu [2020-12-18 21:35:27 +0000 UTC]

Nie wiem czy jest wydana w jakimś zbiorku ale prawie na pewno ją czytałem po polsku w PDFie :)

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RedsterfishRedsterfish [2020-12-18 20:00:42 +0000 UTC]

Not cute :|

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to Redsterfish [2020-12-18 20:25:44 +0000 UTC]

no love for the baby ? :D

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Son-of-BehematSon-of-Behemat [2020-12-18 19:45:59 +0000 UTC]

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to Son-of-Behemat [2020-12-18 20:25:58 +0000 UTC]

Would you like to adopt it? :D

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MtheMagnificentMtheMagnificent In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2024-03-23 01:30:59 +0000 UTC]

No,

I recall what happened to the Sawney Bean family, the baby daughter they spared from the mass execution of all other members -and why she was burned to death as a teen. The family was likely a fiction to denigrate all Scots who were being officially made members of the British kingdom.

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Son-of-BehematSon-of-Behemat In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2020-12-18 20:29:39 +0000 UTC]

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HteMarkOfGundabadHteMarkOfGundabad [2020-12-18 19:00:01 +0000 UTC]

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to HteMarkOfGundabad [2020-12-18 20:26:08 +0000 UTC]

It's fun.

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HteMarkOfGundabadHteMarkOfGundabad In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2020-12-18 20:42:30 +0000 UTC]

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DoctorChevlongDoctorChevlong [2020-12-18 18:52:06 +0000 UTC]

Love the young one, very creepy :) !

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to DoctorChevlong [2020-12-18 20:26:32 +0000 UTC]

This was an improvised addition but very happy with how it turned out!

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Mara999Mara999 [2020-12-18 18:27:50 +0000 UTC]

I like the story and how it combines incest with de-evolution, to make a macabre little Gothic horror yarn. The only thing that I don't like is that the supposed time-frame does take me out of the experience a bit, as the Martense would have gone from reclusive yet normal humans to THAT in just a few generations. It is an issue that unfortunately pops up in HPL's stories quite a bit, because trying to describe things from Colonial America as "ancient" will inevitably be a stretch.

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to Mara999 [2020-12-19 10:36:20 +0000 UTC]

You've got a point. It did not bother me all that much though...  This sort of exaggaration is natural in horror stories like this... Whether the source will be radiation, geneticics, aliens or, indeed more creatively, incest. :D

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Mara999Mara999 In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2020-12-19 12:26:57 +0000 UTC]

True. There is also the other story where someone got lost in a cave and went through a similar transformation when adapting to extreme darkness, kinda like Gollum.

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to Mara999 [2020-12-19 14:05:14 +0000 UTC]

I remember that one. There is also that where a traveller apparently banged some monkey princess to produce hybrids including the main character, and in "Rats in the Walls" the cannibal cult was breeding primitive "posthumans" reduced to the level of cattle.


Lovecraft clearly had a thing for degenerate humanoids :D

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Mara999Mara999 In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2020-12-19 14:49:29 +0000 UTC]

These stories are from his early output, where he mostly tried to emulate Edgar Allan Poe's style and themes, except for tragic dying beautiful women. Most of the creepy gross things in stories from before the 30's are to some degree cribbed from Poe, Dunsany and a few other 19th-century authors that Lovecraft liked.

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SHIN-CHERNABOGSHIN-CHERNABOG [2020-12-18 18:00:14 +0000 UTC]

[GIF]

LOOKS AWESOME!!!

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to SHIN-CHERNABOG [2020-12-18 18:07:14 +0000 UTC]

XD thanks!

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SHIN-CHERNABOGSHIN-CHERNABOG In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2020-12-18 18:12:02 +0000 UTC]

Anytime

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EyeofPrimordial568EyeofPrimordial568 [2020-12-18 17:58:44 +0000 UTC]

Ape like beasts they became. Very horrifying indeed.

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to EyeofPrimordial568 [2020-12-18 18:15:13 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, I am quite happy with the adult one's face.

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EyeofPrimordial568EyeofPrimordial568 In reply to KingsOfEvilArt [2020-12-18 18:16:38 +0000 UTC]

Your welcome

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BluegirlWoomyBluegirlWoomy [2020-12-18 17:58:29 +0000 UTC]

They could be the missing link

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KingsOfEvilArtKingsOfEvilArt In reply to BluegirlWoomy [2020-12-18 18:25:47 +0000 UTC]

I think the teeth are too much adapted for meaty diet!

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