Thing Hanging in the Void
The Thing Hanging in the Void appears to be an original creation of Sandy Petersen for Call of Cthulhu (RPG), inspired by a line from H.P. Lovecraft's "What the Moon Brings (fiction)", and Michael Whelan's illustration for some of the Lovecraft anthologies, Lovecraft's Nightmare.
Description
Maddened ever by the fear of unknown things and the lure of the dead faces...
-H.P. Lovecraft, "What the Moon Brings (fiction)"
The strange and malign Thing Hanging in the Void is mentioned in few Mythos tomes, manifesting as a thin, mummified humanoid figure with murky features composed of a mass of twisted, tortured, screaming faces, wrapped in filthy mouldering rags and hanging suspended in a bottomless chasm somewhere in the Dreamlands, probably the Underworld.
The Thing Hanging in the Void is a "soul-sucker", consuming the spirits of of careless Dreamers, whose tormented faces then join those appearing beneath the Thing's wrappings, their dreams being spun into the tapestry of madness that the Thing weaves toward some enigmatic goal of its own.
Associated Mythos Elements
- settings: Underworld, Hollow Earth, Dreamlands
References
- fiction: H.P. Lovecraft, "What the Moon Brings (fiction)" (apparently partly inspiration for the monster)
- painting: Lovecraft's Nightmare, by Michael Whelan (apparently the inspiration for the monster)
