Indie fantasy/horror creatures

[NewGeekPhilosopher]

Man, vampires are so mainstream. Me, I'm into the indie speculative fiction creatures like Changelings and ghosts. I mean, seriously, it's the 2010s and we still haven't seen a decent Changeling book since Keith Donahue's The Stolen Child in the mainstream. As for ghosts, they're like Leonard Cohen in that everybody knows who he is but few young people actively pursue listening to his music.

Anyway, what's your favorite "indie" creature from fantasy and horror? Vampires may be too mainstream but vampire WATERMELONS may just have stolen my heart.

PS: Yes I realise I sound like an indie hipster a-hole but that's the point. If there really was a market for indie creatures in fiction would it be just as dumb as the practice of listening to bands just because nobody else has heard of them. But Vampire Watermelons are pretty sweet, wiki them.

 

[ElTigreSantiago]

Do dwarves count? I love me some dwarves. I don't recall any movies completely dedicated to them.

 

[NewGeekPhilosopher]

Do dwarves count? I love me some dwarves. I don't recall any movies completely dedicated to them.

Yeah, unless you count Lord of the Rings, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves... there's not much Dwarf action in cinema. Even if you think Ring is a retelling of Wagner's Ring, it's actually just an onryo ghost story. And in the book it's scientifically explained.

Do you like Tolkien, folkloric, or Discworld Dwarves? The Brothers Grimm stories and the Fables comics have some pretty badass folkloric dwarves (don't ask me how I'm aware of this).

 

[Flying Dagger]

they should totally make a movie about some ghosts that get busted

 

[Griphphin]

Psh, you're all sheep, everyone that's down with the scene knows that amorphous blobs are where it's at.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Umm. The creature from the black lagoon? I'm not really sure what you mean. Like not a big Halloween type monster? Or just because twilight came out and now people talk about it

The fly-man from The Fly. I mean you don't really see that anymore. Someone creates a magnificent machine, but just one little mistake causes him to get all his DNA mixed around

 

[Armored Prayer]

they should totally make a movie about some ghosts that get busted

I'd watch that.

 

[GeekFury]

Cthulhu? Basicly anything in the Lovecraftian and to some extent Robert E. Howard Mythos'?

 

[NewGeekPhilosopher]

PS: Yes I realise I sound like an indie hipster .

Just... go...

The words "indie" and "hipster" ceased to be meaningful a long time ago.

Don't use them.

I only use them when I'm poking fun at myself. There's a lot of things I do that my brother uses those particular words to describe me as, even though the latter word hasn't meant a damn thing since Jack Kerouac.

 

[Trivun]

I'm currently writing a series of short stories based on fairy tales, but set in the modern day and twisted somewhat. The main party of characters consists of two people who are irrevocably insane and murdered their families, a psycho girl in love with her own brother, said brother who is somewhat lazy but also very cunning, and another girl who has a hair-trigger switch in her mind that turns her from being perfectly sane and rational into a psycho sadist in a second. Also, the final main character is a lesbian succubus who is pretty much Chaotic Neutral and who has a penchant for deliberately causing mayhem and destruction, and ends up seducing the party leader in the first story only to brutally murder the girl's grandmother moments later. The main plot revolves around protecting this succubus from a bunch of demons who want to kill her for their own evil reasons, and a bunch of gods and good demons who want to kill her for their own good reasons.

And these are the good guys...

(I'm not in the habit of making my characters likeable, when instead I can give them a great plot and decent reasoning for such plots...)

Anyway, to answer the topic question, I've always been fascinated by the idea of the succubuc. Not to mention the horror that fairytales used to instill, years before the likes of the Brothers Grimm came along and made them kid-friendly.

[small]EDIT: Not that anyone will be interested, but the two insane characters are based on Alice and the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. The psycho incest-lust girl and her brother are Hansel and Gretel. And the party leader is Red Riding Hood, known simply as Red, while the succubus is called Luna, takes the place of the Wolf character, and ends up in a complicated relationship with Red. I say complicated because of the fact that regardless of any love felt between them, this succubus did murder Red's granny, after all...[/small]

 

[Umberphoenix]

Indie=independent.

Indie≠not mainstream.

So if you want independent mythical creatures, try manticores, griffons, phoenixes, sphinxes, things that can fend for themselves and don't rely on others to survive.

 

[NewGeekPhilosopher]

Indie=independent.

Indie≠not mainstream.

So if you want independent mythical creatures, try manticores, griffons, phoenixes, sphinxes, things that can fend for themselves and don't rely on others to survive.

What about Gnomes? They pretty much lord over people's gardens pretending to be ornaments. And people purchase them from gardening ware shops unwittingly giving these things domain over their tomato patch... okay, I kid.

That and I was trying to poke fun at the "Is X too mainstream" threads popping up lately. I mean, where does it end?

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

I'm currently writing a series of short stories based on fairy tales, but set in the modern day and twisted somewhat. The main party of characters consists of two people who are irrevocably insane and murdered their families, a psycho girl in love with her own brother, said brother who is somewhat lazy but also very cunning, and another girl who has a hair-trigger switch in her mind that turns her from being perfectly sane and rational into a psycho sadist in a second. Also, the final main character is a lesbian succubus who is pretty much Chaotic Neutral and who has a penchant for deliberately causing mayhem and destruction, and ends up seducing the party leader in the first story only to brutally murder the girl's grandmother moments later. The main plot revolves around protecting this succubus from a bunch of demons who want to kill her for their own evil reasons, and a bunch of gods and good demons who want to kill her for their own good reasons.

And these are the good guys...

(I'm not in the habit of making my characters likeable, when instead I can give them a great plot and decent reasoning for such plots...)

Anyway, to answer the topic question, I've always been fascinated by the idea of the succubuc. Not to mention the horror that fairytales used to instill, years before the likes of the Brothers Grimm came along and made them kid-friendly.

[small]EDIT: Not that anyone will be interested, but the two insane characters are based on Alice and the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. The psycho incest-lust girl and her brother are Hansel and Gretel. And the party leader is Red Riding Hood, known simply as Red, while the succubus is called Luna, takes the place of the Wolf character, and ends up in a complicated relationship with Red. I say complicated because of the fact that regardless of any love felt between them, this succubus did murder Red's granny, after all...[/small]

succubi are a forgotten corner of demonology.
Also i'd read that story. Mail me in once its done

 

[The Random One]

The words "indie" and "hipster" ceased to be meaningful a long time ago.

Don't use them.

Well, he's using them ironically. *is shot*

I think the world needs more banshees. Banshees are awesome!

 

[ElTigreSantiago]

Do dwarves count? I love me some dwarves. I don't recall any movies completely dedicated to them.

Yeah, unless you count Lord of the Rings, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves... there's not much Dwarf action in cinema. Even if you think Ring is a retelling of Wagner's Ring, it's actually just an onryo ghost story. And in the book it's scientifically explained.

Do you like Tolkien, folkloric, or Discworld Dwarves? The Brothers Grimm stories and the Fables comics have some pretty badass folkloric dwarves (don't ask me how I'm aware of this).

I like the dwarves depicted in fantasy books and games. The ones in the Dragonlance are pretty cool, as are Tolkien's dwarves and the ones in Dragon Age: Origins.

I want a movie with dwarves as the main focus. An epic story with a dwarf hero (or heroes). Ugh not those pathetic seven "dwarves". Dwarves are pride-filled, pub-dwelling warriors, not emotionally-extreme Disney characters! And I don't consider Lord of the Rings completely dedicated to dwarves, being that there's only one.

 

[Code Monkey]

 

[Vek]

The Shambler from Quake. Seeing a decently rendered and sound effected (is that a proper phrase?) version would be pretty awesome.

I'm sure if someone could get the rights to use it in a movie, it'd make for some pretty skull-fu**ingly awesome horror.

 

[zen5887]

Indie=independent.

Indie≠not mainstream.

Nahh.. Not true anymore, Indie is a genre.

I'm into Drow, I find the way they run their society amazing. Its chaotic because everyone is killing each other, but its controlled enough that they have rules about how you can kill each other. And there isn't a massive blood bath in the streets.

 

[Indecizion]

The Myrddraal from Wheel of time are pretty epic XD

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

No they aren't, everyone and their mother uses succubi in stories.

You do realize that Got corrected 3 times already, bother somebody else.