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* Most of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s eldrich horrors are described as smelling rather icky.
{{quote|'''The Necronomicon:''' Iä Shub-Niggurath! As Foulness shall ye know them! }}
*:* The titular town in ''[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]'' and its mutant inhabitants smell ''very'' strongly of fish.
:* In ''[[The Dunwich Horror]]'', Wilbur was able to keep his brother (the eponymous monster) a secret for so long because its stench kept most passersby from investigating the farm.
* In ''[[A Wrinkle in Time|A Wind In The Door]]'' and other books featuring the Echthroi as villains always mention how bad they smell - "makes silage smell like roses," according to Calvin. Thing is, they can disguise this smell until [[Glamour Failure|they are found out]].
** In ''A Swiftly Tilting Planet'', Chuck has a very sensitive sense of smell, and cruel, mean people smell distinctly bad to him.
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