Eerie creature art of three grey, frog-like humanoids emerging from the dark sea onto a moonlit beach.

A HEAD BROKE THE SURFACE. IT SLID SLEEKLY UP, a domed cranium, then a heavy brow ridge, then a pair of wide-set, bulbous eyes. The creature paused, apparently taking the lie of the land. Behind it two similar heads emerged, likewise stopping when their eyes were above water. The foremost of the trio, seemingly having established that the coast was clear, resumed its rise from the sea. Now a flat nose and a froggy mouth came into sight, along with a pair of fan-like structures, which flared back along its temples, somewhat resembling a bat’s ears but most likely the creature’s gills. Rounded shoulders, a profoundly humped back, and long arms tipped with webbed hands were next, until at last the thing stood on the foreshore wholly revealed, a hulking, slouching hybrid of human and amphibian. Water poured from its skin – a loathsomely glossy integument, dappled grey in the moonlight – while its chest rose and fell with slow heaviness, as though the creature was accustoming itself to extracting oxygen from air and this was a more arduous task than extracting it from water. See more