I go back to the originals—-the monstrous shoggoths from “The Mountains of Madness”. they are black blobs with glowing green points, and can mold themselves into any organ or appendaged as ordered by the Qn’Qnx or “Old Ones”. The shoggoth had a particular way of killing, by sucking the heads off leaving the corpses headless and covered in black iridescent slime. Oh and a most pungent stench was their odor.
The “Old Ones” had yellow starfish-shaped heads and were part vegetable and supremely tough and evolved to survive most anywhere including under the sea.
The Blob was based on a supposedly true incident in Philadelphia in 1950 – 2 cops on patrol saw a purple blob fall from the sky and roll across the street in front of them. They were spooked and called for backup. 2 other officers showed up and the 4 men surrounded it. One of them was brave enough (or foolish enough) to touch it and broke the surface tension of the thing. It begin to evaporate and eventually disappeared without a trace. Or at least, that is what they all claimed.
Is this why we don’t hear much about the Arkham House Publishing archives? All dissolved by some unspeakable slime from another dimension? (BTW, Kar Klash Ton and the other Arkhamites tended to relish in the “unspeakable,” did they not?)
Templo S.U.D. about 6 years ago
Was “The Blob” ever novelized?
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] about 6 years ago
I go back to the originals—-the monstrous shoggoths from “The Mountains of Madness”. they are black blobs with glowing green points, and can mold themselves into any organ or appendaged as ordered by the Qn’Qnx or “Old Ones”. The shoggoth had a particular way of killing, by sucking the heads off leaving the corpses headless and covered in black iridescent slime. Oh and a most pungent stench was their odor.
The “Old Ones” had yellow starfish-shaped heads and were part vegetable and supremely tough and evolved to survive most anywhere including under the sea.
Briwnys about 6 years ago
The Blob was based on a supposedly true incident in Philadelphia in 1950 – 2 cops on patrol saw a purple blob fall from the sky and roll across the street in front of them. They were spooked and called for backup. 2 other officers showed up and the 4 men surrounded it. One of them was brave enough (or foolish enough) to touch it and broke the surface tension of the thing. It begin to evaporate and eventually disappeared without a trace. Or at least, that is what they all claimed.
chris_weaver about 6 years ago
From now on, steer clear of the Amityville Town Library!
Amra Leo about 6 years ago
Talk about a book that grabs hold of you…
johndifool about 6 years ago
The horror…….the…horror……….
rshive about 6 years ago
Is that the Monster from the Black Lagoon?
Sisyphos about 6 years ago
Is this why we don’t hear much about the Arkham House Publishing archives? All dissolved by some unspeakable slime from another dimension? (BTW, Kar Klash Ton and the other Arkhamites tended to relish in the “unspeakable,” did they not?)