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During Randolph Carter's interdimensional dream-travels through the universe he ends up in the distant past and possessing the body of a native Nug-soth on the planet Yaddith. The Yaddithians are described as having tapir-like snouts and terrible claws, as well as having features that make them a mish-mash of mammals, insects and reptiles. Going by the typically Lovecraftian way of describing random features but still leaving the whole appearance vague, this is how I imagined the creatures when reading "Through the Gates of the Silver Key": As a hybrid between a man-sized beetle and an armadillo, with face like that of a misshapen anteater. I must give props for HPL once again creating an alien species more alien than most later aliens in sci-fi.

Description
During Randolph Carter's interdimensional dream-travels through the universe he ends up in the distant past and possessing the body of a native Nug-soth on the planet Yaddith. The Yaddithians are described as having tapir-like snouts and terrible claws, as well as having features that make them a mish-mash of mammals, insects and reptiles. Going by the typically Lovecraftian way of describing random features but still leaving the whole appearance vague, this is how I imagined the creatures when reading "Through the Gates of the Silver Key": As a hybrid between a man-sized beetle and an armadillo, with face like that of a misshapen anteater. I must give props for HPL once again creating an alien species more alien than most later aliens in sci-fi.