SOTA Nightmares of Lovecraft: Dagon

Over a year ago, I posted an article on the Ghoul, the first and least entry in the Nightmares of Lovecraft line by now-defunct State of the Art Toys. Now, in honor of October and Halloween, I thought I’d do some work on some more monstrous figures, and thought Dagon would be a good place to start.

SOTA Nightmares of Lovecraft: The Ghoul

  

In 2005, State of the Art Toys released a set of three figures representing two of the greatest creations from American horror literature luminary, Howard Philips Lovecraft. The two figures were Dagon and Cthulhu. Cthulhu would be released in three versions: green, black and light blue. Dagon would get a single release. The third figure in the set was this guy, the Ghoul from Lovecraft’s 1926 story “Pickman’s Model”. In 2007, I would acquire four of the five figures in this set, and in 2015 I’d decide that I wanted to write on them. So, probably better late than never, here is the first one: Pickman’s Ghoul.