In addition, this vague description has stimulated the imagination of a number of artists, giving rise to a variety of unique interpretations (see below for a few examples). In “The Rats in the Walls” Nyarlathotep appears less anthropomorphic. In “Nyarlathotep” this entity appears as a dark-skinned human from Egypt while in “The Dreams in the Witch-House” he appears as a satyr-like, medieval interpretation of the devil. First, the description of Nyarlathotep as a “mad faceless god” howling in the darkness revealed another form of this entity. Nyarlathotep by ECT Monster (The quote above is the only time Nyarlathotep is mentioned in HPL’s early tale “The Rats in the Walls.” While it is the only time Nyarlathotep in cited, it stands out for three reasons. “It was the eldritch scurrying of those fiend-born rats, always questing for new horrors, and determined to lead me on even unto those grinning caverns of earth’s centre where Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly in the darkness to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute-players.” – H.P.
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