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What’s going on guys - as always, I’ll
be your spirit guide Jack Finch - as we once
again stare into the cosmic abyss - and guys,
if we keep this up - eventually it’s gonna’
start staring back - as we take a look at
the Top 5 Scariest Lovecraftian Monsters - Part
3.
Roll the clip.
Well - look at us, Part 3 eh?
We’ve managed to skip our way through the
terrifying world of H.P Lovecraft - racking
up three videos worth of his most sinister
and grotesque creations - and guess what?
- Still, not a sniff of Cthulhu.
Why?
Because we’re better than that - Cthulhu’s
been done to death - he’s the Taylor Swift
of the Great Old Ones.
Don’t worry guys - we’ve got you.
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Kicking off at Number 5 - Zoth-Ommog
An entity that really lives up to its namesake
of being weird, amorphous and full of tentacles.
Zoth-Ommog - also known as The Dweller in
the Depths - is a Great Old One who’s first
appearance was in 1975’s Out of the Ages
by Lin Carter - who then later emerged in
Brian Lumley’s Titus Crow series.
Zoth-Ommog is described as being distortedly
cone-shaped and having four sucker-lined arms
similar to that of a starfish - apexed with
a tooth filled maw and a great mane of tentacles.
Zoth-Ommog was spawned as the third son of
Cthulhu and Idh-yaa untold aeons ago in the
binary star system of Xoth.
His brood brothers and sisters are Ghatanothoa,
Ythogtha and Cthylla - and along with their
father Cthulhu - they all shipped off to Earth.
Eventually, Zoth-Ommog was defeated in the
long war with the Elder Gods - and he was
imprisoned deep beneath the seabed near his
father’s tomb in the dead city of R’lyeh.
There he waits for eternity - whispering into
the darkness, waiting to cast his will into
the dreams of mankind.
Coming in at Number 4 - Eihort
First appearing in the 1980 Ramsey Campbell
novel, Before the Storm, although appearing
in reference notes since the late sixties
- Eihort is quite the mysterious Great Old
One.
And that’s saying something, because as
you know - these guys are pretty elusive.
Here’s something to sum this guy up - his
name is derived from the German word Ei - which
means Egg - and horten - which means hoard.
Yeah, he’s a walking, clicking sack of Great
Old One babies.
Gross.
Eihort - also known as The God of the Labyrinth
- lives in an endless network of caverns and
tunnels, situated beneath the Severn Valley
in England.
Which is near where I grew up … no thank
you.
Eihort appears as an enormous, gelatinous
blob - supported on hundreds of tiny, bone-like
legs.
It’s whole body is covered in a shifting,
writhing mass of eyes - which constantly disperse
and reform at random.
The real kicker though - is the reason for
Eihort’s existence.
It lives for the sole purpose of capturing
humans who strays into its realm.
Once it captures a poor, hopeless, unfortunate
victim - it offers them a bargain.
Either they allow Eihort to implant its young
into their still-living body - and eventually,
after incubation - burst into a disgusting
brood of it’s vile babies - or immediately
be violently and gruesomely consumed.
Yeah - I think I’d take the latter.
Next up at Number 3 - Ithaqua
Otherwise known as the Wind Walker or the
God of the Cold White Silence - Ithaqua is
the Lovecraftian equivalent of both the Wendigo
and the Yeti - yet like with many of these
terrifying Great Old Ones - he’s a thousand
feet tall and inspires horror on a cosmic
scale.
Ithaqua is an enormous humanoid with webbed
feet and glowing red eyes - who frequently
stalks the Arctic wilderness, preying on the
unwary and the unfortunate.
Many of those who live in Ithaqua’s hunting
grounds leave sacrifices in a stark effort
to appease the beast - but as you can guess,
it’s not very successful.
Anyone who is unfortunate enough to be caught
by Ithaqua - are dragged off to his true home,
the ice-ridden planet of Borea - where he
aims to swell his growing band of worshippers.
It gets weirder though - because Ithaqua will
then attempt to mate with any females by inserting
a physic seed into their womb - inevitably
developing into a Great Old One offspring.
He aims that one day, one of his terrifying
children will help in destroying their true
enemy - the Elder Gods.
Though - historically, this hasn’t gone
too well, and Ithaqua still waits for his
true, terrifying heir.
Well, we’ve said it before - but the Great
Old Ones are some pushy parents.
Swinging in at Number 2 - Yig
And if you’ve got a fear of snakes - you
might want to look away with this one.
Yig - also known as the Father of Serpents
- or even more conveniently, The Snake-God
- has a pretty straightforward role in the
pantheon of the Great Old Ones - although,
it’s in his method where the real fear lies.
Yig manifests as a gigantic snake with the
arms of a man - although he sometimes appears
as a bizarre reptilian humanoid - Lizard people,
am I right?
Yig is considered to be the god of snakes
and serpents everywhere - and his fierce devotion
to his children is the source of his wrath.
When he emerges from his sleep - his sole
purpose is to punish those who have harmed
his serpentine brood.
In the Curse of Yig, written in 1929 by Zealia
Bishop and edited by H.P Lovecraft himself
- a couple from Arkansas move to Oklahoma
in search of a better life in the late 1800’s.
Unfortunately for them though, the husband
has a fear of snakes - and his wife deliberately
destroys a nest of newborn rattlesnakes to
ease his phobia.
Well - yeah, bad news - and Yig sends swarms
of his children to attack the couple - killing
their dog in the process.
In the end - to ultimately take his vengeance,
Yig forces the woman to kill her husband with
an axe - before transforming her into a part-human,
part-reptile monstrosity - cursing her to
wriggle on her belly like a snake for all
eternity.
Yikes.
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - Azathoth.
The big guy himself - and the fact that it’s
taken us three videos to finally reach this
guy is saying something.
Now - you see, it’s difficult because Azathoth
isn’t a Great Old One or Elder God - he’s
an Outer God - and that means that he doesn’t
concern himself with the likes of Cthulhu
and his brood.
He’s an intangible horror - an entity that
lurks in the darkest depths of space - writhing
in an eternity of cosmic torment.
Also known as the Nuclear Chaos, the Daemon
Sultan and the Blind Idiot God - Azathoth
first appearance was in an unfinished 500-word
short story written by Lovecraft in 1922 - which
would later be transformed into The Dream-Quest
of Unknown Kadath.
Azathoth exists outside reality - and there
can be no definite description, as everyone
envisions his ever changing visage differently.
He gave birth to The Darkness, The Nameless
Mist Nyarlathotep - and spat forth Yog-Sothoth.
In The Insects from Shaggai by Ramsey Campbell
- his worshippers are many - and in a forest
temple in the Goatswood, his cultists worship
an idol carved in his image - a horrible,
bestial, mouthless face - with deep-sunk eyes
and covered in glistening black hair.
As far as Lovecraftian entities are concerned
- they don’t get much more cosmically terrifying
than Azathoth - a creature so vile that even
uttering his name can drive most people to
madness.
I guess I best shut up then.
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