Terror of Cut-Throat Cove

[RB Terror]: A creature of darkness that seeks to "devour the world." It was once worshipped by a valley people in the jungles south of Venezuela. It rested in a great golden ark or chest with an altar of beaten gold in front of it. The creature would emerge when the locals offered it sacrifices: first captives, then slaves, then children, then their choicest virgins. Eventually the natives sealed the lid. Later, conquistadors conquered the natives and sought to take the chest and altar back to Spain aboard the Santa Maria in 1711. However, the ship sunk near Cut-Throat Cove off the Caribbean island of Santa Rita, and the creature remained in the wreckage until modern times. Sometime around the 1950's, members of an illicit salvage expedition opened the chest. The creature killed the divers and the rest of the crew except for one, the writer Howard Lane, who had become a worshipper of the creature and shared in its consciousness.

The creature can remain dormant for long periods of time, but eventually its hunger grows. All the creature's known victims are human beings. It had a special craving for a blond woman aboard the salvage vessel. The creature devours its victims, but also incorporates their consciousness and memories into its own.

The creature is vaguely described as like a squid or sea-serpent, a shifting and polymorphous presence. It has eyes that also serve as mouths, for the lids roll back like lips. In the black smoke or ink around it is a cluster of the heads of its victims. Black bubbles appear when it approaches the surface. It grows larger and larger, the more victims it absorbs. At last report, the creature was approaching the main town on Santa Rita, and seemed ready to eat everybody there, and possibly everyone in the rest of the world as well.

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