Okay, there’s the teddybear. I wonder if they had to buy a ticket for it, too. Why did I introduce it in the first place… I have been reading a big fat Swedish book from 1920 called Elektriciteten by E.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Men! What can I say? We’ve all been there. And he gets what he wants, anyway, because LOOK at that NOSE. In other news, Google celebrates Galileo’s telescope, German archaeologists are digging up a mysterious African civilization, and my sister’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The full quote is found in Dreams of a Spirit-Seer (originally published as Träume eines Geistersehers, 1766) by Immanuel Kant, available through Wikisource. Kant expresses – with his dry sense of humour, but not without a certain Lovecrafty ominousness –[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mochi tells the nasty man to “shut up” in Japanese. The debate here reflects my annoyance with old adventure stories, where ancient African civilizations almost invariably were led by white people, and intelligence was measured by European beauty standards. Of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a tough one – because of Nyarly’s technobabble. There are other items that I would like to introduce, but the tuning fork did an impromptu entrance. He would of course have more effective oscillators for more sinister purposes.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Falco’s little medal looks like this. I usually draw all my religious trivia from the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1911 edition. He probably received it as a gift from the Daughters of Charity, working in the slums of Paris. Even though this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I didn’t mean to disappear for a month, but I need to earn my living, you know! The Nyarlathotep archives are here.
Now it’s getting interesting. Yes, that’s a trapezohedron – in French, intriguingly called “antidiamant”. To be true to my source of inspiration, it properly ought to consist of bizarre non-Euclidean angles. Geometry – the only field of mathematics that I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Not again! In every story and every chapter there are some pet scenes that I dream of drawing, that I have figured out in my head long before I came up with the story that they are embedded in. To[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Inspired by “Dulcy, the Beautiful”, a comic strip in the British movie magazine Picture Show 1924. It’s not very funny but rather cute anyway, and supposedly written by silent star Constance Talmadge… Both Connie and her sister Norma were a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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