He's the kind of entity you don't want to meet in a dark, eldritch alleyway. Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, often arrives as a suave, unsettling stranger with a thousand masks to lure unsuspecting humans.

This Outer God from the Cthulhu Mythos, dreamed up by H.P. Lovecraft, delights in manifesting on Earth to wreak psychological havoc, driving mortals insane with terrifying revelations. Squirming tentacles and bat-wings are just some of his gruesome guises described in Lovecraft's stories. Other times, Nyarlathotep prefers more subtle forms, like a dapper man in a thousand-year bespoke suit, stoking madness with his silver-tongued philosophy.

Wherever he treads, the very fabric of reality frays apart, so if this cosmically creepy cat comes calling, be sure to decline his sinister invitations.