Small dragon rearing up out of a coffee mug, roaring pink and blue flames.
Don’t Talk To Me Until I’ve Had My Brimstone
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Red kitsune mask floating above an open book. Seven white tails are sprouting from the spine of the open book
Take a look.
It’s in a book.
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A tiny girl in the foreground looks towards a horse-like monster with wings towering over shelves of books
“Yuki saw something big and scary moving through the library shelves… “
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A swarm of thimbles with legs, claws, and eyes work together to carry a book across a desk
Thimblecrabs take up residence in any brikabrack they can find. When surprised, they explode into dust and reappear by next Tuesday.
They’re the primary cause for objects being moved in the night.
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A stout little lady gnome with a wide face and bushy hair strolls under mushrooms while carrying a book
A little lady gnome on her way back from the library.
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Drawing of a bird-like figure hunched over a table reading a book with shelves looming around it
Spotted a familiar figure flipping through books in the library.
#Mothman
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I love my horrible little son.
A little fungus demon running amok in the library
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A round little guy with spikes aloe vera leaves for hair stands in front of a pile of books, holding a spear of aloe vera flowers
I’m so please with how this aloe vera sprite turned out.
I was really channeling my love of Tony DiTerlizzi’s style here.
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Tiny and grumpy humanoid hanging by its fingertips from the side of a vertical book on native Californian plants
A pinpoint clover fairy.
Pinpoint clover is an endangered species of California clover. You got this, little fairy!
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A tiny humanoid figure crouched over an open book. Instead of hair, it had the arching leaves of a spider plant.
A spider plant pixie for today. I guess it’s fairy week!
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A smirking fairy decked in oak leaves sitting on a branch with an open book on one leg.
This little jerk is an Oak Pollen Fairy. And he’s the reason everyone around me—myself included—is sneezing their butts off.
Look at him.
He knows what he’s done.
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Hulking scaled creature with large horns and tusks holding up a book
The hodag is a fearsome critter born of the ashes of cremated oxen in the folklore of the American Tall Tale.
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A spindly creature with an over large head and monstrous mouth reading a book in the woods
The Dover Demon is a bioluminescent cryptid sighting that might just Be the result of kids being bored.
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A paper lantern with monstrous features. Two eyeballs appear through rips in the paper, and a large rip forms a mouth with a big thick tongue. The tongue is wrapped around two books.
This chōchin obake (lantern monster) is doing its best to carry home some books without any arms.
It’s a little spookier looking, and I blame it on reading about Junji Ito earlier today. I think some of the horror bled in.
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A small tapir-like creature with an extremely-wide snout. It sits behind a scattered pile of socks. Trans pride colors bedeck the small creature.
That rarest of indoorovores, the Uncommon Sock Eater.
Manifested by the belief that missing socks have to be going *somewhere,* the Eater of Socks first appears in Sir Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather.
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Open book in front of a jar holding an ephemeral, axolotl-like creature made of flame.
Reading fairy tales by salamander-light is a vibe.
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Tiny humanoid with an open book across its lap. Its oversized head is entirely a massive, sharp-toothed maw with no other features.
Due to karmic consequences for evil deeds in a past life, Preta (hungry ghosts) are afflicted with an insatiable hunger in their current incarnation.
Looks like this one got off easy with a hunger for knowledge. (Some end up hungry for poop.)
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Nightmarish hairy humanoid with grotesquely enlarged and sunken eye sockets and a scraggly beard leers at the viewer while holding a book.
Today’s cryptid is the Skunk Ape, Florida’s smellier answer to Bigfoot.
I went a little nuts on the design, but you can only draw so many ape men variants before you crack. So … SO many ape men.
Also “terrifying nightmare Bigfoot” feels very on brand for Florida.
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Grinning, cat-headed snake looms over a book behind a nest full of eggs.
Is this tatzelwurm about to eat a nest full of eggs?
Nope! Turns out it’s just a mama reading to her kids.
Tatzelwurms are mythical cat-headed serpents that roam the woods of Central Europe.
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Baboon-like monster staring imploringly at the viewer while holding a short stack of books in huge, clawed hands.
This Almas looks like they needs some help with their books.
Almas are a hairy ape-man cryptid from Turkic lore, said to dwell in the North Caucasus region. They’re known for their enormous claws.
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A shaggy beast with bear and humanoid features reading a book
This frightening fellow is a Yeren—a hairy ape-man that lives in the mountainous forests and caves of Hubei province in China. It also may just be a bear.
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A large white furred humanoid looking nonplussed at the viewer while holding a tiny book
You don’t have to be embarrassed, Yeti. There’s nothing wrong with reading romance novels.
The yeti is reputedly a denizen of the Himalayan mountain range and several expeditions to find it have coincided with periods of political tension in that area.
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A drawing of a hairy-bodied monster with an electric rice-cooker for a head, carrying an armload of books.
The narigama is a mischievous yōkai that sports a flaming rice pot on its head. This one has clearly modernized a bit
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One of the more tragic cryptids is the squonk. Supposedly so ugly that it would avoid its reflection and dissolve into tears if cornered. Wow, I can feel the dysphoria metaphor.
The feathers and beak are a nod to Nancy Springer’s “Byrd Song” short story.
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Huge worm monster with baby hands drooling ichor while it reads a book
Today’s cryptid is one of the classics: the Mongolian Death Worm.
Huge stylistic shout outs to Frank Quitely. Huge caterpillars with baby hands are wonderfully grotesque.
The Mongolian Death Worm can supposedly kill with a spray of venom OR a jolt of electricity.
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A drawing of a woman in a halter top and jeans reading a book. Her face is a spider with abstract markings that look like a happy face.
Today’s cryptid is a Jorōgumo (a spider lady) but I wanted to give her a twist. I based her on the nananana makakiʻi, or Hawaiʻian Happy Face Spider and put her in more casual clothes than the typical layers of kimono.
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Woman without a face wearing a kimono and reading a book about vampires and colonialism
Today’s sketch is a personal favorite—the Noppera-bo, or as she’s known in Hawaii, the Faceless Woman.
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The Loch Ness monster reading Chuck tingle’s Camp Damascus
Looks like Nessie is getting a little nervous with Camp Damascus
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Horned skullbeast reading a bestseller about detectives and food
Mothman reading socially-acceptable smut
Jackalope with horns piercing a number of manga
Gray alien reading about how anxious humans are
Woo! That's over a week of #librarycryptids!
I think I've hit some of the more famous cryptids--any suggestions for new ones? Or for new books they could be reading?
Pt 1: Horned skullbeast, Mothman, Jackalope, Gray Alien
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