“The Thing that Walked on the Wind” (Strange Tales, January 1933) is Derleth’s first attempt at using the Ithaqua monster. A Mountie named Dalhousie reports about a strange case at Navissa Camp, Manitoba and the town of Stillwater, where everyone mysteriously disappeared. The local doctor discovers three bodies that fall from the sky. The first, a woman, has been frozen solid. The other two are men and still alive. One wakes and mumbles of the terrible things he has seen while on his aerial travels with Ithaqua. Both men die from the warmth of the room, their bodies now conditioned to live in extreme cold. From the pieces, Dalhousie figures the two men were strangers in Stillwater. The woman had come to them for help since the townsfolk planned to sacrifice her to Ithaqua, the Wind-Walker. While the three escaped, they were taken by the monster, who took all the townsfolk as well in retaliation. When the Mountie looks into these terrible details he sees the creature, a weird purplish snow cloud with burning eyes. After that he feels something is watching him and he must escape. The report ends there.
Alias Ithaqua the Wind-Walker, The Ithaqua Monster. The Snow Thing
Description “The Thing that Walked on the Wind” (Strange Tales, January 1933) is Derleth’s first attempt at using the Ithaqua monster. A Mountie named Dalhousie reports about a strange case at Navissa Camp, Manitoba and the town of Stillwater, where everyone mysteriously disappeared. The local doctor discovers three bodies that fall from the sky. The first, a woman, has been frozen solid. The other two are men and still alive. One wakes and mumbles of the terrible things he has seen while on his aerial travels with Ithaqua. Both men die from the warmth of the room, their bodies now conditioned to live in extreme cold. From the pieces, Dalhousie figures the two men were strangers in Stillwater. The woman had come to them for help since the townsfolk planned to sacrifice her to Ithaqua, the Wind-Walker. While the three escaped, they were taken by the monster, who took all the townsfolk as well in retaliation. When the Mountie looks into these terrible details he sees the creature, a weird purplish snow cloud with burning eyes. After that he feels something is watching him and he must escape. The report ends there.
