These gentlemen are Sixtystone Press’s Magnificent Seven – the seven authors of weird fiction whose work helped to form the Cthulhu Mythos. From left to right – Arthur Machen, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, HP Lovecraft, August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith and Frank Belknap Long.
Sketching the Ghouls – Consume Likeness
If a ghoul eats your brain it can, for a while at least, become you. It might even forget it’s a ghoul.
Sketching the Ghouls – Dancing Underground
Ghouls just want to have fun.
I hate myself for that pun already.
Sketching the Ghouls – Humor
Ghouls possess a sense of humor. Whether a human would appreciate the jokes would depend on how refined the human is.
Sketching the Ghouls – Taking Down a Gug
Ghouls and gugs really, really don’t like each other.
Sketching the Ghouls – Taking a Bite
A ghoul. A corpse. Chewing ensues. Pretty much a mandatory illustration for this book.
Sketching the Ghouls – Egyptian Sacrifice
Don’t mess with the ghoul cultists. You won’t get mummified so you’ll never make it to the afterlife.
Sketching the Ghouls – Size Comparisons
How big is a ghoul compared to a gug or a human? Haven’t you always been curious?
Sketching the Ghouls – Infighting
Ghouls, while not an especially aggressive species, are occasionally quarrelsome and those differences of opinion can lead to rather bloody negotiations.
Sketching the Ghouls – Trading Babies
Ghouls make other ghouls in both the old fashioned way (by breeding amongst themselves) and by trading ghoul babies for human babies. For some reason humans who spend a lot of time in the company of ghouls usually become ghouls themselves. This is especially true for human babies raised by ghouls.
Ghoul babies raised by human beings will eventually become ghouls as well. It just takes them longer than if they actually raised by ghouls.
