The Alp
Alpe, Alpen, Drudge, Maraalp, or also little alp,you shall remain no longer alp's sister and father,you shall go out over the gate;alp's mother, trute and mare,you shall go out to the roof-ridge!Let the mare not oppress me,let the trute not pinch me,let the mare not ride me,let the mare not mount me!alp with your crooked nose,I forbid y
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Creeping Shadows
“Shifting Echoes”

“Your shadows, as black as your soul, will leap out and devour you whole.”
—Ms. Onyx

Creeping Shadows by Brad Hicks

Creeping Shadows are humanoid creatures that thrive and hunt down those with a guilty conscience. Deep within the darkness, lurking between the creeping darkness, the Cree
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Le Lechuza
In the rafters of the half-fallen barn, we saw her, the source of our torments for almost a year. The flashlight beam fell across the horrid, yet human face. Her black eyes contained all the hatred in the world. If she could have killed us with a simple glare, she would have. She spread her wings, and hissed and clicked, making no
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Star Ridge Manor
Star Ridge Manor is a combined assisted living and memory care facility set on a sprawling old estate atop the local landmark known as Star Ridge. Star Ridge was originally the estate of Dennis Landry, a wealthy local robber baron who occupied it from 1880 until his death in 1925. 

Star Ridge Manor by Brad Hicks
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Void Speck
“Out, damn spot! Out, I say!” 
--Lady Macbeth

Void Speck by Brad Hicks

It’s just a two-dimensional spot, not much bigger than this: . 

It is also obliterates anything that comes into contact with it, leaving a breach in all material  objects including magical items, de-enchanting them. The Speck devours everythi
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One-eyed Goblins
Many cultures feature legends of uniocular people or monsters: the Arimaspi (Greek), Likho  (Slavic), and of course, Cyclopses. Japan’s Hitotsume kozō and kasa-obake, both being  somewhat cute, mischievous yōkai are closest in depiction and demeanor to these pests, which  likely originated the myths of monocular entiti
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Shepherd / Shepherdess of The Black Goat
These creatures start out as human. They are chosen before their birth for the honor of becoming a guardian of a site sacred to the Outer Goddess Shub-Niggurath. Their mothers are ritually sacrificed to the Shub-Niggurath at the time of their birth. The babies are then rais
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Lesser Shepherd / Shepherdess of The Black Goat
Much like the greater variety of this creature, Lesser Shepherds / Shepherdess’ of The Black Goat begin life as a normal human. They too had mother’s die during childbirth, but never as part of a formal ritual to Shub-Nigguruath. During their childhoods they r
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Irradiated Scavenger
Defiler of the Forsaken

For a scavenger, Patience is the key to the Pantry.
-Delia Owens

Irradtiated Scavenger by Brad Hicks

As the 19th century came to a close, there was an odd gray area where science was being codified. Discoveries were made and exploited without the proper controls and safety
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Eye Drops
 He was so damn insistent I almost did it just out of frustration, to get him to shut up. I didn’t know why it had to be done in some dank, musty old cellar, though I do now. He said the location and the work of the alchemist, some ancestor of his, had to be kept secret. Clearly he was correct.

Eye Drops by Rob Carlos

So t
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Hachishakusama
Po…Po…Po Po Po…Po…Po…Po Po…

Alternative names: The Eight-Foot-Tall Lady 

Hachishakusama is a spirit that abducts children on the edge of puberty. She takes the form of an unnaturally tall and lithe woman. A long white dress clings to her body. A matching wide-brimmed sun hat casts a shadow over her beautiful yet cold
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The Perfect Soldier
Used, Broken, But Unending.

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime” - Ernest Hemingway, 1946

Perfect Soldier by Brad Hicks

World War 1. Mechanized warfare was something no nation had ever witnessed. The generals who set the strategies were shocked and horr
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Tatzelwurm
Newborn Servants of Bokrug

“Well-equipped,  I started out on a spring morning (near the end of April 1929) and after a short climb I reached the top of the Tempelmauer. After a short rest between the cliffs I started to look for the entrance to the cave. Suddenly I saw a snake-like animal sprawled on the damp rotting foliag
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Tusk Mice
“They are small, gray or brown, and look velvety soft. Cute, really. Except for those tusks. Those actually look like they could do some damage. Then, when the little bastards start swarming, all thoughts of cuteness vanish right quick. Wish I didn’t take that path through the forest. Didn’t even notice the little holes in the hills
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The Matador 
A Daredevil of Carcosa 

Fee Fi Fo Fin#0812 and magnificentophat#2199 

“It was standing on the bed, it cocked its head at us like a german shepherd. Hellmann was crawling towards us, it must have stabbed him at least six times.” 

“Then what?” 

“Then - I don’t fuckin’ know - it just throw that cloth over itself an
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Formless Nightmare
The Alpaca

Darkness falls, the stars go out, and the faint moonlight disappears leaving the investigators in complete darkness. A wave of blackness seeps towards them like a deadly fog. Mesmerising shapes that swirl inside it reflect the nightmares of those that stare into it as it forms tendrils and tentacles t
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Vivomancer
Life is a secret to be cut open and understood

I will find this being and make it teach me all it has learned. So many deaths can’t just go to waste without a single human profiting from it—anonymous note on an edition of “Monsters and Their Kynde” containing lore on the vivomancers.

Vivomancer by Brad Hicks

Vivomance
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BoogeyMan (Unique Entity)
The closet doors opened on their own. From the darkness inside, five hands reached forth, each grabbing the doorframe. The wood beneath the clawed hands groaned as it pulled itself forward. A blackened mist, a miniature storm cloud, spilled out of the dark. Within the cloud, a half-dozen mouths of
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The thing at the window
Every kid sees danger in the dark, it’s the primordial instinct that allowed us to survive and thrive into what we are now. But this isn’t just kids being scared of the dark, there’s something there taking them! There’s been a consistent number of disappearances and I think I found a pattern. I think some
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Glass of Enhancement
         It was just a glass, or so I thought. That’s how it appeared anyway. Really simple, like from a cafeteria–complete with those white rings of tiny little scratches from the dish machine shaking them around. 

I chose physical and drank down the water. It happened fast; I felt confused and a little diz
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