We often see slime in fantasy works. Especially in Japanese fantasy works, the concept of slime = weak monster has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The first life killed by many brave people in life is slime
So, how was Slim born? A lot of information on the Internet is regarded as the origin of Slime in Lovecraft’s novel “Crazy Mountain”. Such as the Japanese Wikipedia and the domestic Baidu Encyclopedia, have adopted this statement
(https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%8F%B2%E8%8E%B1%E5%A7%86/5736546).
However, there are also many fantasy fans who have objections to this claim
同人漫画家, 同人漫画译者カスガ said that the repairs described in “Crazy Mountains” have highly developed intelligence and can grow the necessary organs according to the orders of the old dominators. There is a big gap
InカスガIt seems that the repair There is no common point between Sri Lanka and our Slim, except for the “unshaped monsters” – in the final analysis, Shugs is not even a mucus-like monster. It produces feet and eyes when it moves
User Sato Idiot pointed out that before the 1923 Madonna, in 1923, Anthony M. Rud’s short story Ooze appeared to be closer to today’s Slim’s indefinite shape. Monster
カスガintroduction, in Rud novels The monster is artificially removed from the growth-inhibiting factor, the unintelligent amoeba, which can be infinitely huge by preying on other creatures. Even with a knife and a gun, it has no effect, and it is very close to the current slime image
In the original tweet, カスガThrough the end of the monster in Rud’s novels. Considering that there will be readers reading this work, I will omit it
And after that, Otis Adelbert Kline’s “The Malignant Entity” and Howard Fast’s “Wrath of the Purple” all have indefinite monsters, both of which are in front of Crazy Mountain
In 1952, “Terror World” published a comic book “Strictly from Hunger!”, telling that men suffering from malignant cancer got the immortal body through the witch’s black magic, but they were taken away by the proliferating cancer cells. The body becomes a monster, and all creatures touched by it will be eroded, leaving only one skeleton. This may be the first comic depicting a monster like Slim
Then, in 1953, Joseph Payne Brennan published the novel “Slim”, and the name Slime was born
Brennan The monsters in the pen, inhabit the deep sea, resemble black mud, prey on other creatures, spend hundreds of millions of years in the dark, but are rushed to the land because of the tsunami caused by the volcanic eruption of the seabed. Even its ending is similar to Ooze
Soカスガthink, slime The history of development may have originated from the huge Amoeba protozoa in the 1923 Ooze, which was formed by the 1953 “Slim”. And Hugues is just a tributary of this long river
(https://twitter.com/kasuga391/status/1127562353787252736).
And Kesulu mythology researcher Mori pointed out that earlier than Ooze, in 1907, Charles Edmonds Walk’s “The Odyle” has already told the story of the chemical synthesis of cells that have attacked humans
French novelist André Couvreur’s “Microbial Invasion” also tells a similar story, but the giant microbe depicted in the illustration of this work is not like today’s slime, but more like a tentacle
But to say the illustration, “Ooze” clearly wrote the monster as a translucent huge amoeba, but the cover of this short magazine (pictured above) is still painted as a tentacle, and even detailed painting On the suction cup Was the American already having a tentacle?
And in 1936, when Astounding Stories magazine serialized Crazy Mountain, the illustration was like this:
In the original text, the hands and feet generated by the repairs were also clearly drawn in the illustration
Brennan, who later created the word Slim, is a fanatical Lovecraft Kraft, so there have always been people who think that the image of Slim is probably to pay tribute to the repairs
(https://twitter.com/Molice/status/1128836988524621824)