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“At length, sick with longing... nor able sleeping or waking to drive them from his mind, Carter resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark to where unknown Kadath, veiled in cloud and crowned with unimagined stars, holds secret and nocturnal the onyx castle of the Great Ones.”

“If in our dreamland, it might conceivably be reached, but only three human souls since time began had ever crossed and recrossed the black impious gulfs to other dreamlands, and of that three, two had come back quite mad.”

- H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.

Beyond the gates of sleep lie the dreamlands. Recovered from the abandoned Boston studio of the artist Richard Upton Pickman, this strange glyph-covered idol depicts a monstrous Gug, a gigantic beast from the dreamlands. All that is known of the Gugs and their culture is recounted by Randolph Carter and retold by Lovecraft in the c.1926 tale, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.

As Lovecraft states, the Gugs, “once reared stone circles… and made strange sacrifices to the Other Gods and the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep, until one night an abomination of theirs reached the ears of earth's gods and they were banished to caverns below.” The face of the Gugs are horrible to look upon, having eyes that “jutted two inches from each side, shaded by bony protuberances overgrown with coarse hairs. But the head was chiefly terrible because of the mouth. That mouth had great yellow fangs and ran from the top to the bottom of the head, opening vertically instead of horizontally.”

Miskatonic University scholars believe this idol could have been fashioned by a primitive cult of Gug worshippers, to be used in a sinister rite to call upon the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep. Others believe it to have been made by Pickman himself, as a key of sorts, to aid in his transportations to the mysterious dreamlands. It was a well-known fact that on multiple occasions Pickman travelled to the dreamlands, even learning the language of the Ghouls, before finally becoming one himself. Regardless of its function, the strange glyphs that adorn the idol could be a language, or alchemical formula that will open a doorway to the Gate of Deeper Slumber, the Basalt Pillars of the West, or possibly even to Kadath.

To date Miskatonic scholars are unsure of the mineral the idol is made of. Theories include that it was carved from a meteorite, while others say it was fashioned out of a block of onyx from Kadath itself. Whatever its origins, on occasions the glyphs that adorn its sides have been known to glow with a sinister brilliance. To date this is the only known Pillar of Gug discovered.

Collectors are warned to use extreme caution when using the Pillar.

The Pillar of Gug stands 6.75 inches tall X 3.25 inches wide and luminesces under black light.

Super sculpey hand-painted with acrylics.

PRIVATE COLLECTION
UNITED STATES

Description

“At length, sick with longing... nor able sleeping or waking to drive them from his mind, Carter resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark to where unknown Kadath, veiled in cloud and crowned with unimagined stars, holds secret and nocturnal the onyx castle of the Great Ones.”

“If in our dreamland, it might conceivably be reached, but only three human souls since time began had ever crossed and recrossed the black impious gulfs to other dreamlands, and of that three, two had come back quite mad.”

- H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.

Beyond the gates of sleep lie the dreamlands. Recovered from the abandoned Boston studio of the artist Richard Upton Pickman, this strange glyph-covered idol depicts a monstrous Gug, a gigantic beast from the dreamlands. All that is known of the Gugs and their culture is recounted by Randolph Carter and retold by Lovecraft in the c.1926 tale, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.

As Lovecraft states, the Gugs, “once reared stone circles… and made strange sacrifices to the Other Gods and the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep, until one night an abomination of theirs reached the ears of earth's gods and they were banished to caverns below.” The face of the Gugs are horrible to look upon, having eyes that “jutted two inches from each side, shaded by bony protuberances overgrown with coarse hairs. But the head was chiefly terrible because of the mouth. That mouth had great yellow fangs and ran from the top to the bottom of the head, opening vertically instead of horizontally.”

Miskatonic University scholars believe this idol could have been fashioned by a primitive cult of Gug worshippers, to be used in a sinister rite to call upon the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep. Others believe it to have been made by Pickman himself, as a key of sorts, to aid in his transportations to the mysterious dreamlands. It was a well-known fact that on multiple occasions Pickman travelled to the dreamlands, even learning the language of the Ghouls, before finally becoming one himself. Regardless of its function, the strange glyphs that adorn the idol could be a language, or alchemical formula that will open a doorway to the Gate of Deeper Slumber, the Basalt Pillars of the West, or possibly even to Kadath.

To date Miskatonic scholars are unsure of the mineral the idol is made of. Theories include that it was carved from a meteorite, while others say it was fashioned out of a block of onyx from Kadath itself. Whatever its origins, on occasions the glyphs that adorn its sides have been known to glow with a sinister brilliance. To date this is the only known Pillar of Gug discovered.

Collectors are warned to use extreme caution when using the Pillar.

The Pillar of Gug stands 6.75 inches tall X 3.25 inches wide and luminesces under black light.

Super sculpey hand-painted with acrylics.

PRIVATE COLLECTION
UNITED STATES