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The disease is contracted by touch and slowly turns the skin (small patches in children and the entire body in adults) of the victim to into a gray, stone-like form. It is said that the disease also drives its adult victims insane. Hanahaki disease, or hanahaki byou. Hanahaki Otome (花吐き乙女) by Matsuda Naoko.
Chalmers, Halpin. (1891–July 3, 1928) Mystic, esteemed writer of horror fiction, and the victim of a gruesome, unsolved murder. He was born in Partridgeville, New York and was a graduate of Miskatonic University, class of 1918. Later he became the Curator of Archaeology at the Manhattan Museum of Fine Arts in Brooklyn.
First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem of the same name, he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers and in the tabletop role-playing games making use of the Cthulhu Mythos. Later writers describe him as one of the Outer Gods. He is a shape-shifter with a thousand forms, most of them maddeningly horrific to ...
Sebastian Beach. Lord Emsworth 's butler at Blandings Castle, from the works of P. G. Wodehouse. 1915. Beeker. from the Phule novels by Robert Asprin. 1990. Lynn Belvedere. from the novel Belvedere, the adapted feature film and its sequels, and the TV series Mr. Belvedere. 1947.
Lovecraftian horror, also called cosmic horror[ 2] or eldritch horror, is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible [ 3] more than gore or other elements of shock. [ 4] It is named after American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
Max and Moritz - Principal characters of the book of the same name written by Wilhelm Busch in 1865. Famous for their tricks, Max and Moritz quickly became famous characters in Germany. The Mask - Wears a mask imbued with Loki's powers and lack of inhibition. Mister Mxyzptlk - An imp from the fifth dimension featured in the Superman comics.
Amber Torrelson, one of the four player characters in Project Eden, is a cyborg Urban Protection Agent; her body has been rebuilt within a giant robotic frame after sustaining fatal injuries in a train accident. Barret from Final Fantasy VII; Berle, Ruprecht, Shigeo, and Vesper of the Ten Wise Men from Star Ocean: The Second Story.
This list of fictional snakes is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals and is a collection of various notable serpentine characters that appear in various works of fiction. It is limited to well-referenced examples of snakes in literature , music , film , television , comics , animation and video games .