SOURCES: "In the Abyss" by H. G. Wells

DESCRIPTION: “It was a strange vertebrated animal. Its dark purple head was dimly suggestive of a chameleon, but it had such a high forehead and such a braincase as no reptile ever displayed before; the vertical pitch of its face gave it a most extraordinary resemblance to a human being. two large and protruding eyes projected from sockets in chameleon fashion, and it had a broad reptilian mouth with horny lips beneath its little nostrils. In the position of the ears were two huge gill-covers, and out of these floated a branching tree of coralline filaments, almost like the tree-like gills that very young rays and sharks posses...It was a biped; its almost globular body was poised on a tripod of two frog-like legs and a long, thick tail, and its fore limbs, which grotesquely caricatured the human hand, much as a frog’s do, carried a long shaft of bone, tipped with copper. The colour of the creature was variegated; its head, hands, and legs were purple; but its skin, which hung loosely upon it, even as clothes might do, was a phosphorescent grey. And it stood there blinded by the light.” (“In the Abyss” by H. G. Wells)

NOTES: The Sea People are intelligent city-dwellers who worship humans as we might angels. Their religious leader, donned in a robe of placoid scales and luminous diadem, hold lengthy ceremonies at their stone altars. They decorate their walls with human skulls and wreckage from ships. They posesses very loud vocal powers, allowing them to communicate in the water as humans do on land.

HISTORY: The Sea People are one of Lovecraft's sources for the Deep Ones.

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