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cryptid-manor · 9 months

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ISN’T IT TIME TO JOIN THE HEAP?

#the heap #cryptidcore #cryptids #analog horror #the backrooms #liminal spaces #weirdcore #oddcore #horror #horrorcore #creepypasta #scp #monster design

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cantsayidont · 7 months

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October 1944. Born on Monday: The debut of one of the most fearsome of DC's Golden Age villains, the monstrous Solomon Grundy, in a story written by noted science fiction author Alfred Bester. Although he looked like Universal's Frankenstein Monster (then appearing with Dracula and the Wolf Man in a popular series of monster movies), Grundy was actually a kind of swamp monster, built around the skeleton of murdered miser Cyrus Gold. As Green Lantern explains:

Grundy's origin is very similar to that of the Hillman Comics muck-monster The Heap, who had first appeared in the Sky Wolf story in AIR FIGHTERS COMICS #3 (December 1942), although the Heap had originally been a WW1 German flying ace, Baron Emmelmann. (The Heap later inspired Swamp Thing and Man-Thing.) However, all of these characters ultimately had their roots in a Theodore Sturgeon short story called "It," first published in the pulp magazine UNKNOWN in 1940.

Because Solomon Grundy is immune to Alan's power ring (which didn't work on wood), Alan eventually deals with him by shoving the monster in front of an oncoming freight train. However, as any horror movie fan could tell you, it's not so easy to kill something that's dead to begin with. Grundy would return three more times in the Golden Age, next appearing in the Green Lantern story in COMIC CAVALCADE #13 (Winter 1945).

#comics #all american comics #paul reinman #alfred bester #green lantern #alan scott #solomon grundy #doiby dickles #swamp thing #the heap #man thing #muck monster #theodore sturgeon

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tomoleary · 8 months

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Bernard Baily - House of Secrets #75 (1965) Prince Ra-Man; the Heap; Eclipso

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#Bernard Baily #house of secrets #Prince Ra-Man #the heap #eclipso

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dinosaurgiantpenny · 10 months

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#the heap #airboy #eclipse comics #man-thing #man thing #swamp thing

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comicarthistory · 1 year

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Page from Airboy and Mr. Monster #1. 1987. Art by Michael T. Gilbert.

#eclipse comics #airboy #mr. monster #Michael t gilbert #the heap #valkyrie #chuck dixon #timothy truman

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skookworks · 2 years

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The Heap Endures

#The Heap #Swamp Monster

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onryou-onryou · 6 months

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Imogen Heap - Goodnight And Go - Live On Fearless Music HD

#imogen heap #pop music #frou frou #the heap #Youtube

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crossoverworldtree · 2 years

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Swamp Men

Name: Swamp Being a.k.a. The Heap, Man-Thing, Swamp Thing, Dwarf Zzahzahn Motivation: Stalk Swamp, Drink Blood Critter Type: Monster Attributes: Str 12, Dex 4, Con 13, Int 1, Per 4, Will 7 Ability Scores: Muscle 30, Combat 17, Brains 9, Life Points: 200 Drama Points: 5 Special Abilities: Regeneration (15 per turn), Reduced Damage (1/5th all), +4 to brains for Perception tests, +10 to resist domination/control, Deranged Cruelty, Natural Weapons (claws), Weapons (Blood Drinker), Iron Mind, Hard to Kill 10, Increased Life Points +60, Weakness (Fire and chemicals do double damage, reduce regeneration rate. Prevent it as long as it is burning), Adversary (Various)

Name - Score - Damage - Notes Claw - 17 - 29 - Slashing Grab - 19 - None - Grapple Drain - 17 - 41 - Slashing, Must grapple first

The 'Swamp Monster' is a common archetype that ranges in size vastgly. An oceanic version made of seaweed called "Zzahzahn" is known to float around, growing up to 50 meters (154ft) tall. The smaller version is generally known from the southern United States for the better part of 50 years with little sign of stopping.

In the 1970s, the ghost of a scientist named Alec Holland managed to possess one of these beings. This gave them greater intelligence (4, Brains 16) and access to elemental (plant) based magic (Magic 5, Specialized Magic (Plants)). Today, they remain a potent spirit, but the base form of the being is rather the same.

Beyond Alec Holland, how these beings operates is a mystery to both scientists and occultists. They act on their own, for reasons which vary wildly. Neither "Hero" nor "Villain" per say, simply existing

#DC Comics #Marvel Comics #Independent Comics #Swamp Thing #Man Thing #The Heap #Swamp Monster #Ultraman #Zzahzhan #NPC #NPCs

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alternateworldcomics · 2 years

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Heap story from Airboy # 34, written by Patricia Highsmith, future author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley series among others.

#patricia highsmith #the heap

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kekwcomics · 2 years

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THE HEAP

#the heap #skywald #skywald publcaions #skywald comics #pulp #horror #horror comics #horror mood #pulp horror #bronze age comic books #bronze age #black and white comic #ross andru #mike esposito #bronze age horror

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frankenuff · 1 year

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naclyoho Day 1

I’d completely forgotten about naclyoho until I started to see posts crossing my dash yesterday. I didn’t feel up to it last year, which was frankly a whole clusterfuck. This year? Well, we’ll see how it goes.

No podcasts to carry me through the tasks and give me a sense of time, but yesterday I adulted before I remembered about the salty pirates and damn it I’m going to claim it:

Started to clear out the built-in wardrobe in the guest room - eventually the plan is to remove the doors entirely and get a (to be determined) number of hanging organisers to go on the rail. The idea is to have a place to put clothes that isn’t The Heap, and where they’re easily visible and easy to put away. I have two sub-heaps right now, one of stuff still in good condition but outgrown (sideways, alas) to donate, one of stuff that might still fit and which I may want to keep. The rest of the stuff in there is Partner’s and needs him to check what if anything he wants to keep.

Sorted out getting a refund for something that was accidentally overcharged

Contacted the old pension company and got my contact details updated (phone call; despite working in effectively a call centre I HATE making phone calls)

Arranged (another damned phone call, the online booking whatsit shows no available bookings for the rest of this month and a chunk of next so I think it’s broken) for a plumber to visit to repair a leaking pipe (he came today, looked at the pipe, told us it needs a part ordered and went away again. hopefully it won’t be too long before the part arrives and he can come back and stop the dripping)

Actually put away a bunch of stuff before it could be absorbed by The Heap, aided by the fact that I’ve worked out how to have said stuff visible and accessible in the place I’m most likely to need it. This was the first mostly-emptied-it-now-reload-it post-laundry stage, hopefully I’ll continue to find it convenient enough to be worth the mild mucking about folding things, and will keep doing it.

Irritatingly, none of these things were either particularly difficult or time-consuming, which is bloody typical for my crappy brain. Held together almost entirely by maladaptive coping mechanisms, bloody-mindedness, and spite, that thing.

#naclyoho #naclyoho 2022 #the heap

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cryptid-manor · 8 months

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