Ghost of a flea

Half of those things make me thing "shoggoth!" when I see them shambling across the landscape. All thats missing is some cyclopean architecture in the background.

Shoggoth is exactly right... talk about non-Euclidean. We should ask him if he does a line in sunken city architecture; I can imagine Rlyeh unfolding from the deep.

I as well was thinking shoggoth...shudder.

Looking for suggestions BTW. just finished re-reading Mythago wood. Need something in between it and Lovecraft.. halp me bruthahs.

I would put "Weaveworld" half way between Lovecraft and Mythago Wood. But I expect you have already read it...

Ah yes, weaveworld.. good choice. Its been ages since I read it.

Speaking of Shoggoths, we spent two nights in Salem Mass during our honeymoon 9 years ago and I swear I saw them skulking in the misty shadows in the main city park...

Them's the cleaning shoggoths.

Weaveworld started out okay and had some great imagery, but it bogged down in the middle, when the heroine pointlessly hooked up with one of the stranded denizens of the the Weaveworld (who couldn't cope with living in our unmagickal civilization and became a pitiful drunken couch potato) and didn't pick itself back up -- somewhat -- until the end, which was as I recall suitably smashbang.

Then again the fact that I still remember bits of the book this many years after I read it says something in its favor... or just means I just have a cluttered and disorganized memory.