Flat (race)
Flat
Origin: Manly Wade Wellman's "The Desrick on Yandro (fiction)"
Description
"And there's the Flat. It lies level with the ground, and not much higher. It can wrap you like a blanket...."
I could see, but Mr. Yandro couldn't, as around from behind the corner of the desrick flowed something. It lay out on the ground like a broad, black, short-furred carpet-rug. But it moved, humping and then flattening out, the way a measuring worm moves. It moved pretty fast, right toward Mr. Yandro from behind and to one side.... The crawling carpet brushed its edge against his foot. He looked down at it, and his eyes stuck out all of a sudden, like two door knobs. He knew what it was, and named it at the top of his voice. "The Flat!" Humping against him, it tried to wrap around his foot and leg. He gasped out something I'd never want written down for my last words, and pulled loose and ran, fast and straight, toward the edge of the clearing....
The Flat is a low, flat, hairy, fast-moving nocturnal ambush-predator that creeps silently through the forests of the Appalachian mountain country, waiting for a chance to grab its pray by the ankles, and wrap it up like a blanket.
Keeper Notes
- I like to think the Flat is smart, maybe as smart as primitive man and maybe even descended from him, and that the Flat hunts in packs, and gathers secretly in cults dedicated to appalling secrets in the darkest of the mountain thickets. (fan theory)
Associated Mythos Elements
- setting: Folk Mythos
- story: Manly Wade Wellman's "The Desrick on Yandro (fiction)"
References
- Fiction: Manly Wade Wellman's "The Desrick on Yandro (fiction)"
