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KHONGBASSI, THE FROGFATHER (1946)

SOURCES:
"Frogfather" by Manly Wade Wellman (Weird Tales, November 1946)

DESCRIPTION: “The lantern-light caught the eyes first, great popped-out eyes of every jewel-flashing color ... They were set in a heavy blunt head the size of a fish-basket ... But it had no bony nose, no nose at all, and the mouth was a long curved slit like a tight-closed Gladstone bag. Under the mouth, where the chin ought to be, the white throat dipped in and out, breathing calmly ... All blotchy green and brown, with a white belly and a wet smoothness, it was a frog. But it was larger than a man by twice, I suppose." (“Frogfather” by Manly Wade Wellman)

HISTORY: Khongbassi is interesting to compare with Lovecraft's Deep Ones and with Clark Ashton Smith's "Mother of Toads".

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