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The Maddening Descent: 15 May, year of our Lord 1934,

"Year of our Lord", how strange those words seem to me, certainly through out my life and my career as a scientist I can find no evidence of such a creator, no matter what the Church of England might wish to tell us. God if He does exist obviously doesn't file much favor with me, it's be a half a century since my grandfather Professor Archibald Lanning lost his seat at Oxford's Archaeological department and cast our family in to the darkest of shames for his crimes, falsifying artifacts, stealing from digs, writing whole reports about things that are purely and simply madness. Whole chapters written in a languag

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Tomeronby ~mscorley

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The Epiphany of Death by Clark Ashton Smith

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*chaosfive55 Jun 11, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

Had to re-Fave it so it wouldn't get buried...which is ironic, since Tomeron un-buries himself occasionally...

~mscorley Jun 11, 2010

haha

*chaosfive55 Oct 30, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

THIS IS PERFECTION!!! You didn't even need to add the worms...AWESOME!

~mscorley Oct 30, 2009

Thanks! I hope I didn't pervert the image you had in your head of him too much... I know how that can be when I picture something and someone draws it and im like, ehh no, thats not right at all..

This is how I saw him tho!
Thanks again for the suggestion.

*chaosfive55 Oct 31, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

No, this is how I envisioned him--stooped, pale, Lovecraftish...I especially like the candle-wax dripping over his fingers! For myself, I would have had some cobwebs clinging to his robes--not TOO many, just enough to let us know that he just came out of his catacombs...not too late to add some, is it?

~mscorley Oct 31, 2009

good idea!

*chaosfive55 Nov 1, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

I like the cobwebs! You applied them with great subtlety, too--I would have swathed poor Tomeron with them so much that a blind man would have known where he came from. Very nice work!

~mscorley Nov 1, 2009

thanks man

*chaosfive55 Nov 1, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

So, what's next on your agenda? If you really wish to evoke REAL Horror in Literature, read The Throne Of Bones by Brian McNaughton! He was a CAS/HPL fan, but his tales have a twist all their own, particularly The Retrograde Necromancer; Lord Vendriel Vendren is one of the most evil (yet oddly comical) sorcerers ever! Believe me, if you read this book you'll have LOTS of inspiration...

~mscorley Nov 1, 2009

I'm currently working on the Phantom (erik) from phantom of the opera, after that I have a William Hope Hodgeson story I want to draw from. Haven't looked much further than that yet. (well of course I will draw cthulhu before I finish the series.

Never heard of Brian McNaughton, I'll check him out next time I get the chance. thanks!

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