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Art: Michael Whelan
Sorry to ask again so soon but its another twofer. At some point would you ever be interested in converting the lesser known great old ones Eihort and y'golonac? I know depending on what CoC edition or system you get Y'golonac's entry from he can be "controversial" but after seeing some artwork featuring him on DArt he seems interesting. Next question would Eihort's broods count as worms that walk? I know they are similiar but since both exist separately in CoC I wanted to check to be sure.
I actually quite like Y'golonac, at least in theory. I don't know what the Call of Cthulhu RPG has done with him, but "Cold Print" was one of the first Mythos stories I read, and so Y'golonac has a special place in my heart.
Image © deviantArt user Nottsuo, accessed at his gallery here
Were I to do statistics for Y'golonac, I would probably expand his interests from perversion and depravity (which seems easy to make Very Uncomfortable at the gaming table) to censorship and dangerous media of all kinds. Just bursting forth and eating everyone is par for the course for a GOO. But encouraging a society to destroy itself by spreading hate on one hand and censoring things that aren't harmful on the other? Well, that's the Internet. And behind his brick firewall, Y'golonac smiles.
Image © Chaosium Inc., from Malleus Monstorum
Eihort I'm less familiar with, having not read the short story he comes from, but his deal seems pretty similar to Y'golonac. Confront individual humans, offer them a choice to serve him or die, and the "serve him" choice will also kill them. From what I could tell from quotes, the original Brood of Eihort wasn't an intelligent, coherent swarm; that was also a Call of Cthulhu the RPG. Just the "gotcha" ending of the story is the narrator seeing a guy burst open with a swarm of the Brood spilling out of him. So I'd see that as a more parasitoid direction. The Broodlings are the juvenile stage after having hatched from a host, Brood of Eihort are powerful single creatures like the Star Spawn of Cthulhu, and Eihort is the first/greatest among them with demigod-level power.
Ramsay Campbell's Y'Golonac by Caleb Cleveland
Ramsay Campbell's Gla'aki by Caleb Cleveland
The Thirty-One Days of Halloween: Frankenstein and his creature
Carl Dradstone (Ramsay Campbell) - Frankensteins Braut (novelization of The Bride of Frankenstein), 1980, Vampir Horror-Roman 389
Ramsay Campbell wrote three of the six novelizations of classic Universal monster movies published in 1977 under the house name Carl Dreadstone (the other two being Dracula's Daughter and The Wolf Man).