The Star Vampires are a fictional extraterrestrial species in the Cthulhu Mythos, originally created by Robert Bloch for his short story "The Shambler from the Stars".
Description[]
Star Vampires are creatures from outer space that are normally invisible. They are voracious blood suckers, becoming visible once their bodies are full of the victim's blood, a vivid red colour. Its form is like that of a jellyfish with neither a head or any visible facial features apart from its huge maw. Their bodies have multiple muscular tentacles, each strong enough to crush a man to death and on the tips are the suckers with which it drains the blood of its victims. From the star vampires comes nonstop eerie horrifying laughter.
It's possible that the Star Vampires might be in some way related to Tsathoggua, since the infamous grimoire De Vermis Mysteriis contains a spell to summon them which mentions "bufoniformis Sadoquae" (i.e. toad-like Tsathoggua). The book's author, Ludvig Prinn, was known to keep a number of Star Vampires as his loyal servants. (CIRCLE: "The Shambler from the Stars")
In Other Media[]
- In the Demonbane series, the Star Vampires are invisible disc-shaped weapons of Tiberius' Deus Machina, Belzebuth. They are capable of draining the magical power along with the magic circuits of their enemies once attached. These weapons are summoned by the incantation "Tibi, Magnum Innominandum, signa stellarum nigrarum et bufaniformis Sadoquae sigillum……!" (English translation: "To thee, the great Not-to-Be-Named, the signs of the black stars, and the seal of the toad-shaped Tsathoggua……!").
- The Star Vampires appear in the trading card game Z/X Zillions of enemy X, under the name "Dusk-Awaiting Star, Shambler".
Gallery[]
- Main article: Star Vampire/Gallery