Eldritch Abomination/Literature: Difference between revisions

** And Tak from ''[[Desperation (Literature)|Desperation]]'' and ''[[The Regulators (Literature)|The Regulators]]''; a sadistic, incorporeal monstrosity heavily implied to have no true form, it has no apparent motive other than causing chaos and killing everything it comes across. The effects it has on those it possesses are...[[Body Horror|disconcerting]], to say the least.

** As well as another short story, "N", told through the journals of a psychiatrist analysing a patient who believes that by keeping objects "in order" obsessive-compulsive style, he is keeping cosmic horrors at bay (which doesn't seem so strange at first, since that's a pretty common reason why obsessive-compulsives do the things they do). {{spoiler|The psychiatrist eventually, following the patient's suicide, takes over his "duty" of keeping things in order and ends up killing himself as well, due to the stress involved in keeping the cosmic horror CTHUN and the rest of its reality out of ours. It's implied that even if more people continue the duty, the barrier keeping CTHUN at bay will stop working anyway.}}

** In ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' Book Three, Illustrated Edition, a print shown during their trip {{spoiler|aboard Blaine}} shows the part of Roland's world that has yet to even begin to recover from the wars that made it what it is. The bird-things may not reach cosmic-level, but what they indicate about the greater cosmos could snap those old neurons pretty damn fast.

** Speaking of which, [[The Stand|Randall Flagg]] is implied to be an Expy for Nyarlathotep...

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