Outer Ones
[HPL Whisperer (online text)]: A race of fungoid, crablike alien beings with outposts on earth.
Anatomy
The bodies of the Outer Ones resemble a five-foot long, pink crab with many pairs of legs and two bat-like wings in the middle of the back. The head is a convoluted ellipsoid, resembling a pyramided set of rings or knots of thick ropy stuff, all covered with multitudes of very short antennae. Sometimes they walk on all their legs, sometimes on the hindmost pair only, using the others to carry objects. The footprints or clawprints of the Outer Ones are hideously crab-like. The prints are about the size of a human foot, with a central pad from which pairs of saw-toothed nippers projected in opposite directions, thus making it difficult to infer the direction of travel.
The Outer Ones are more vegetable than animal, and have a somewhat fungoid structure. Their blood or juice is a foul-smelling, green sticky stuff, perhaps because of the presence of a chlorophyll-like substance.
Ethereal
The Outer Ones can be seen by humans, but are invisible to ordinary cameras, due to being composed of matter alien to our part of space. However, a chemist with the right knowledge could create a photographic emulsion that would capture their images. After the Outer Ones die, their bodies evaporate in a few hours.
The Outer Ones are able to live in interstellar space and fly through it with their wings, which have a way of resisting the ether. The Outer Ones' wings are too poor at steering to be of much use traveling on earth. Nevertheless, one specimen was seen flying from a hilltop, and Henry Akeley feared that the Outer Ones were learning to steer better with their space wings.
The Outer Ones have subtle senses that do not require light, for they originated in the outer void where there is no light. Light even hurts and hampers and confuses them. They seem to generally avoid moonlight; though on one occasion, one was seen flying past the full moon.
Speech
The Outer Ones usually communicate telepathically. However, they have rudimentary vocal organs that can be surgically modified to allow them to emulate speech. Their voices have a severe buzzing quality.
Origin
The Outer Ones originated in a black cosmos outside time and space, far outside the Einsteinian space-time continuum or greatest known cosmos. Most of the Outer Ones still inhabit strangely organized abysses of infinite vastness, outside the space-time globule that we consider to be the cosmos.
The Pennacook myths taught that the Outer Ones came from the Great Bear in the sky.
Yuggoth
Some of the Outer Ones populated the dark planet Yuggoth (Pluto), at the rim of our solar system, amidst the giant ruins left by some elder race [Whisperer].
Albert Wilmarth spoke to Georg Reuter Fischer of the Outer Ones as "Plutonians" [FL Terror2].
See: Yuggoth.
Earth and the Old Ones
According to Von Junzt, the Outer Ones colonized earth before terrestrial life [HPL Aeons (online text)].
However, according to Prof. Dyer, the Outer Ones seem to have arrived later, during the Jurassic age. The Outer Ones invaded earth from Pluto and drove the crinoid Old Ones out of the northern lands. The Outer Ones (aka Mi-Go) were composed of more exotic matter than the Old Ones, and were able to undergo transformations and reintegrations impossible for the latter. Dyer wondered whether the Outer Ones were still a threat during the declining years of the Old Ones. [Mountains (online text)]
Mu and Yaddith-Gho
According to Von Junzt, the Outer Ones left monstrous ruins in a region that later became the human kingdom of K'naa, on Mu. The Outer Ones perished from that region aeons before humans arrived, but left behind a fortress atop Yaddith-Gho, wherein dwelt their demon-god Ghatanothoa, who later became a bane to the human population. [Aeons]
Continuing Outposts
The Outer Ones maintain a secret colony on this planet, with outposts including ones in Vermont and on certain remote peaks in the Old World.
Albert Wilmarth compared the sightings of Outer Ones to the legends of Mi-Go or Abominable Snow-Men of the Himalayas. The formerly human brain called B-67 told Wilmarth that he originally met the Outer Ones in the Himalayas.
There are multiple varieties of the Outer Ones, and only the variety represented in Vermont is able to bodily fly through space without mechanical aid or special surgery. Those Outer Ones inhabiting certain remote peaks in the Old World were brought in other ways. [Whisperer]
Metallurgists
According to Pennacook legends, the Outer Ones have mines on earth where they take a mineral they cannot get from any other world [Whisperer]. According to Von Junzt, the Outer Ones also brought a special metal from Yuggoth; this lagh metal cannot be found in any mine on earth [Aeons].
Humanity
For the most part, the Outer Ones are content to let mankind alone, as long as we stay away from certain mountains and valleys where they are active. However, the Outer Ones have occasionally been known to accost lone travelers with surprising offers. They have alliances with certain members of the human race. Akeley got information from a human who spied for the Outer Ones and later killed himself; Akeley believed that there were other spies, including Walter Brown.
Akeley's impersonator said that the Outer Ones have an increasing desire to make themselves known to humanity and establish peaceful coexistence, now that mankind's increasing knowledge is making it more and more difficult for the Outer Ones' outposts to exist secretly on this planet. The Outer Ones apparently inspired humanity to discover Yuggoth (the planet Pluto).
According to pseudo-Akeley, there is a secret cult of men who oppose the Outer Ones. Pseudo-Akeley linked them to Hastur and the Yellow Sign, and claimed that the cult works on behalf of monstrous powers from other dimensions. [Whisperer]
According to the being who possessed Orin Sanderson, there has been interbreeding between humans and the winged beings from the outer rim of the galaxy. Soon, the winged ones from Yuggoth will return. [RB Strange]
Bringers of Strange Gods
Albert Wilmarth came to believe that the foulest legends of secret myth were first brought to earth by the Outer Ones [HPL Whisperer]. Randolph Carter believed that Winged Ones had came to Earth to teach the Elder Lore to man [Gates (online text)].
As noted previously, the Outer Ones brought the demon-god Ghatanothoa to earth [Aeons]. The Outer Ones reverence Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, Shub-Niggurath, the Lord of the Woods, Azathoth, and Nyarlathotep [Whisperer]. They worship Yog-Sothoth as the Beyond-One [Gates].
Earth Creatures
Dogs and other earthly beasts have always hated the Outer Ones. The region around Akeley's house was devoid of animal life. Akeley's dogs apparently kept the Outer Ones at bay. [Whisperer]
Resemblances
Professor Dyer, when he saw the Antarctic city of the crinoid Old Ones, was reminded of various primal legends, including the Mi-Go or Abominable Snowmen of the Himalayas. The specimens of the crinoid Old Ones reminded Lake of stories of other elder entities, including the Albert Wilmarth's stories of the Outer Ones. [Mountains]
In Books
The tiny man said that the Book includes secrets of the Mi-Go. [HH Guardian]
Aka: Abominable Snow-Men; Mi-Go; Yuggoth, Spawn of;
Compare with: Black Winged Ones; Winged Ones.
Synonym for Evil Ones (2). [HH Guardian]
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