Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-4893169-20150728223911/@comment-26475253-20150731015821

Mmpratt99 deviantart wrote: Originally, the lich idea I had was a creature whose muscular was composed of flesh-eating night crawlers similar to the ones in the 1976 American nature horror film Squirm, which got parodied by Mystery Science Theater 3000. I even found a picture of similar-looking lich-type creature on the Monster Gallery. But then I thought--well, the monster in the picture doesn't look ferocious-enough, instead, it's looks rather melancholy and rather dignified (maybe British even) while the thing in the story is a curse-maddened, vermin-squirming and all-devouring monster held together by stubborn will and a rain poncho.

I find the lizard kobold less scary than giant rats>  Plague of RATZILLA I agree, the picture shown there (I assume that this is the picture) does not, in fact, look fearsome. Rather sad, in fact. And I've tried making a rat-monster based in fantasy, using a children's book as inspiration... or rather, a point of interest. The actual inspiration came from a real concept from ancient times, an entity known as the Rat King. A Rat King is, in fact, a being where several rats (sometimes as many as a dozen or more) have had their tails tied together or infused into one another's, believed to have some sort of psionic ability. Sadly, I couldn't get past the first part: http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Down_the_Darker_Path (I post this here in hopes that you may have an idea on how to carry on, as you seem to be a capable fantasy-based pasta writer)