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The field guide to the mist...; Giveing Sheperd King the spec....
Topic Started: Apr 7 2010, 04:27 PM (2,064 Views)
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Apr 8 2010, 09:45 PM
Stephen King also had some glimpses into a Lovecraftian ecosystem in the novel From a Buick 8. Those were pretty interesting.
What creatures were in that story?
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A one-eyed leather-winged creature, a fish with tentacular eyestalks, leaves that melted into mush and were pattered like sharp-toothed smile faces, lizards that seemed to be in the form of sticks, a 4-winged bird creature, and an entity with 3 legs, a head of tentacles, and a single, acid-producing feeler covered in globules.
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can you find pictures of them?
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There's some very stylized artwork of some of the creatures here: http://www.cemeterydance.com/king/buick8/art/index.html
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Those things look like they could have come from Darwin IV.
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If you read the book, though, they mention a few other things. Like leaves that look like sharp-toothed smiles, then dissolve into mucus. Or, petrified staff-like lizards.

I recommend the book, personally. I feel those illustrations don't do the original work justice.
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I'm going back to basics.

I thought they were pretty good. I personally envisaged the triped as being taller and thinner though.
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They fell apart on contact with earthly air. What kind of alien biochemistry does that?
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I imagined those creatures as a lot different. More biologically accurate....
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They fell apart on contact with earthly air. What kind of alien biochemistry does that?
Maybe something living in a very basic or acidic environment, where water would have dissolving capabilities?
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Can I suggest making this thread about Stephen King-related spec in general, sort of like how I had a thread about Kenneth Oppel? I'm reading another book by Stephen King right now that has "spec-able" creatures in it: Dreamcatcher. If you haven't read the book, the villains in Dreamcatcher are a species of humanoid aliens who release fungus-like spores when they die. These spores, once they land in a host, grow into wormlike creatures called "shit-weasels." The humanoid aliens have a symbiotic relation with the "shit-weasels", who provide them with telepathic communication, but they are fatal to Earth animals. Thoughts?
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I remember that book. But, I wonder: how do the shit-weasels lead to the aliens in that life cycle?
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That name is so weird.... Shit Weasel ^^
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Can I suggest making this thread about Stephen King-related spec in general, sort of like how I had a thread about Kenneth Oppel? I'm reading another book by Stephen King right now that has "spec-able" creatures in it: Dreamcatcher. If you haven't read the book, the villains in Dreamcatcher are a species of humanoid aliens who release fungus-like spores when they die. These spores, once they land in a host, grow into wormlike creatures called "shit-weasels." The humanoid aliens have a symbiotic relation with the "shit-weasels", who provide them with telepathic communication, but they are fatal to Earth animals. Thoughts?
There is a 'macroverse' commonly existing in Stephen King's universe, where his most dreaded creations are from. The Mist creatures, The Buick8 creatures and also some terrifying creatures mentioned in the Dark Tower series are similar to that of Mist and Buick8 also reside in Macroverse. The "It" also is from the Macroverse, probably spawned all the other creatures, although currently residing in Earth. The Aliens in Dreamcatcher are also related to the Macroverse.
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