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I like to think that all pulp ape-men are the same species. Clark Ashton Smith's Voormis, Lovecraft's Gnophkehs, whatever Thak from that one Conan story was. And modern Sasquatch and Yeti are their surviving descendants.

Illustration No. 4 for Terrors from Beyond -

THE DIG: Miskatonic University students on an excavation at nearby Dunlow Woods uncover ancient secrets, murder and horrors from the past.
#voormis #bigfoot #art #horror #callofcthulhu #rpgillustration #archeology #cthulhumythos

More than Howard or Lovecraft, Smith naturally leaned into "fantasy racism" - that is, the creation of non-human or near-human species, which sometimes fill in as subjects of prejudice, as the Voormis in "The Testament of Athammaus."

Illustration No. 6 for Terrors from Beyond -

THE DIG: Miskatonic University students on an excavation at nearby Dunlow Woods uncover ancient secrets, murder and horrors from the past.

(And Bigfoot saves the day. Every time.)
#art #bigfoot #sasquatch #voormis #cthulhu #horror #rpgillustration

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Personally I identify them with Clark Ashton Smith's Voormis and Lovecraft's Gnoph-kehs, which I headcanon as the same species and an offshoot of Australopithecus.

That said, I do believe that HPL's Gnophkehs were the same species as Smith's Voormis, and in turn the ancestors of REH's "white apes" of Nordheim and modern Sasquatch and Yeti.