Monsters Who's Art Absolutely Terrified You. [Any]

[wadledo]

Exactly what it says on the tin, basically.
My two biggest are this:

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and this:

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Anything that creeps you out immensely?
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[Colmarr]

Two words: Atropal Scion

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But other than that, how about the Slaymate:

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Oops*, I mean this one:

* Yes, I know posting that was weird and/or nasty, but it was the first image that hit me after a google search for slaymate, and it struck me as so outright crazy that I just HAD to post it. I apologise.

Although, now that I think about it, the first picture freaks me out slightly more than the second one...

[Djinn_in_Tonic]

Warning: Not for the faint of heart. It's not traditionally scary, but...well...judge for yourself.

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[Mystic Muse]

flesh jelly 3.5 D&D

[Colmarr]

flesh jelly 3.5 D&D

Theburningfield means this:

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I'd never seen that before, but it IS disturbing.

[Gaiyamato]

Can't say that any art has overly bothered me all that much.
The Atropal Scion is a really cool pic too. Was going to see if I could make something like it in a high enough campaign one day.

[arguskos]

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So yeah, this thing disturbs me mildly. Not much mind you, but enough. Also, a cookie if you can tell me what it is.

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Also, this picture of the deepspawn is creepy. Great monster, but scary.

[AslanCross]

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I'd never seen that before, but it IS disturbing.

It's a giant living pimple. Favored minions of the Demon Prince of Acne.

Anyway, the Atropal Scion is one (definitely scarier than the actual Atropal).

-Kythons (BOVD). They are pretty freaky on their own, but I found the gore in the artworks more than a little unsettling.

-While the art wasn't used in a monster entry, the illustration from Heroes of Horror that features Grandmother and Uncle Chortle (a green hag in the form of a fat old human woman and a gray jester) at a table with a group of glassy-eyed cannibal children was very disturbing.

-The Wyste (MM2). Giant alien leeches. It didn't help that the artwork is coming from a really odd perspective. At first I thought it was the view from inside the pool where the wystes are swarming, but the more I look at it the more it looks like it's the view from above. And when you realize that each wyste is Huge-sized...

-Baalzebul's art from Fiendish Codex 2. Gastropods have always squicked me, but between the dark, eerie, misshapen ethereal face Baalzebul has in FC2 and the cartoonish drawing of him in BoVD, I find the FC2 art a lot more terrifying.

-The art for the Worm that Walks in Elder Evils, especially the art in the actual chapter. *shudder* I find it seriously creepy because it's vaguely humanoid, yet isn't. The 4E art of the same monster in Open Grave felt like it had a much more human face, so it didn't seem so scary to me.

-The Taunting Haunt (MM5). It's a clown. Clowns are scary. The Taunting Haunt in particular is grossly misshapen and has an utterly crazed expression.

I can't really post pictures since I'm at work, though.

[FoE]

I'm never too freaked out by art. That said, if anything's going to give me nightmares, it's the bog hag.

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It's that second eye, the only thing left of the human face that the bog hag was wearing ... it's still staring at me ... still glaring at me with intense hatred as the flesh is peeled away and falls into the swamp below ...

[wadledo]

It's the eye's that do it for me too.

[Myrmex]

This one gives me the heeby-jeebies:

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[arguskos]

-Kythons (BOVD). They are pretty freaky on their own, but I found the gore in the artworks more than a little unsettling.

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-Baalzebul's art from Fiendish Codex 2. Gastropods have always squicked me, but between the dark, eerie, misshapen ethereal face Baalzebul has in FC2 and the cartoonish drawing of him in BoVD, I find the FC2 art a lot more terrifying.

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-The art for the Worm that Walks in Elder Evils, especially the art in the actual chapter. *shudder* I find it seriously creepy because it's vaguely humanoid, yet isn't. The 4E art of the same monster in Open Grave felt like it had a much more human face, so it didn't seem so scary to me.

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Here, have some pictures.

EDIT: Just found the Jester and Granny picture.

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[Colmarr]

glaring at me with intense hatred as the flesh is peeled away and falls into the swamp below ...

You know, I alway assumed it was pulling the skin on. Not sure whether that's better or worse...

[BenTheJester]

I always found Juiblex to be both fascinating and disgusting at the same time.

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although a gibbering mouther doesnt give its place either

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Anything pseudonatural is a given

[BraveSirKevin]

AD&D Invisible Stalker.... Terrifying!

[MCerberus]

I think the Carcass Crab deserves special mention for the freakyness. For those who don't know, it's a horrific pile of dead soldiers in various states of decay merged into a killing monstrosity. Its claws are jagged shards of rusted armor, and the spikes on its back are banners, polearms, and heads on a pike.

A deep cookie from the infinite darkness for the person to find a pic of it online. Crabby's from ECS.

[Rhawin]

The Splinterwaif

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It just looks so unnatural for some reason.

Even worse is the Chelicera. I couldn't find a picture, but its from the MM3, and its basically the most horrid, terrifying, dreadful spider conceivable. And its dragging a human corpse.

[Colmarr]

A deep cookie from the infinite darkness for the person to find a pic of it online. Crabby's from ECS.

What does a deep cookie taste like?:

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Having seen that, it reminded me just how freaky I consider the Eberron Cadaver Collector to be (can't post a picture because I can't access the Wizards site from work).

[MCerberus]

What does a deep cookie taste like?:

They say only the insane know on the final days of their life. The doomed regard the taste as that of a thousand screaming souls being devoured while an infinitely malevolent force laughs. Don't eat the deep cookie.

Thanks for finding it though. I only own the ECS so I've never seen the Eberron Cadaver Collector.

[Zaq]

Let's see. Someone with more inclination than me can seek out the pictures of these beasties... I'll just list and describe 'em.

Psurlons, from MM2. I hate annelids anyway, and Psurlons are giant evil earthworms with arms and scary high intelligence. Terrifying.

Thoon Thralls, from MM5. The fluff is creepy to begin with (doomed thralls who will only know peace when ordered to explode by their illithid masters), but the picture just squicks me the hell out. Thoon Infiltrators aren't much better, but... who am I kidding, yes they are. Thoon Thralls are horrifying, just from the picture alone. I don't know what it is about the thick, veiny growth that terrifies me so much, but dammit, it DOES.

Brain Golems, from the Fiend Folio. If you can't see what's horrifying about a stumpy, humanoid-shaped brain, something's wrong with you.

I'm none too fond of the pictures of the Tsochari, from Lords of Madness.

The Odopi, from MM3, is also pretty horrific, but it's pretty cool as well. I'm on the fence about whether it's more terrifying than it is awesome or vice versa. It's a big (Huge, in fact) orange ball of arms, with eyes in the palms of its many, many hands. It reminds me a little bit of the Eyes of Valmar, from Grandia II.

[Teron]

The carcass crab is actually just a "normal" giant crab that glues stuff to its shell. Full info here, if anyone's interested.

The splinterwaif is just twisted. As I recall, it turns children into bramble and eats them.

[TheThan]

No images in books really scare me. I guess because I know their all-just pictures. However the closest I think was the vampire clown from D20 modern. My natural dislike of clowns combined with that mouth full of teeth was slightly unsettling. I’m too tired right now to bother digging up a pic, I’m sure someone else can though.

[Berserk Monk]

I'm never too freaked out by art. That said, if anything's going to give me nightmares, it's the bog hag.

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It's that second eye, the only thing left of the human face that the bog hag was wearing ... it's still staring at me ... still glaring at me with intense hatred as the flesh is peeled away and falls into the swamp below ...

That thing looks like something out of bizzaro Scooby Doo.

[Alleine]

While some of the creatures are creepifying, Most of them just sort of instill a sense of disturbing fascination.

Then there are things like the century worm that make me want to throw up.

[MisterSaturnine]

That thing looks like something out of bizzaro Scooby Doo.

It's Scooby Doo in the MONSTER ZONE.

Where MONSTERS dress up like PEOPLE to almost get away with crimes.

Luckily, we've got Scoob-Sothoth and the gang to save the day!

[JMobius]

Never liked this thing:

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[Starscream]

Don't know if "terrified" is the right word but these things:

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Bloodhulk:

gross me out. Just the feeling that if I poked one it would pop and I'd get covered in nasty stuff.

Incidentally, looking through my books to figure out what those things are called made me think that we should also have "Monsters who are supposed to be scary but who's art made you want one as a pet".

Many more examples there in my case.

[arguskos]

Don't know if "terrified" is the right word but these things:

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Bloodhulk:

gross me out. Just the feeling that if I poked one it would pop and I'd get covered in nasty stuff.

Nasty stuff meaning blood? Cause, that's what's inside them. The name sorta gives it away.

[Trizap]

y'all are pansies. none of these even came close to creeping me out, sure they are kinda weird but they don't seem scary.

[Starscream]

Nasty stuff meaning blood? Cause, that's what's inside them. The name sorta gives it away.

Well yeah, but they look kind of like big zits, so I'd imagine pus and stuff too. And as undead there are probably still organs and things in there that would splatter all over.

There aren't many things found within the human(oid) body that I would care to be showered with, come to think of it.