Flying Polyps

The Flying Polyps are a horrific and malevolent alien race described in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, unlike many of the beings described in Lovecraftian horror the Flying Polyps were actively hostile (as opposed to amoral).

Unable to be fully described by mortal minds the closest humans could come to envisioning these monsters was said to be a floating mass of organic cancerous-looking tissue bestowed with unnatural intelligence and cunning.

Wherever the Flying Polyps went madness and chaos would follow and ancient Earth was said to have been a battleground between the Flying Polyps and other "Elder Species" - with the Flying Polyps ultimately losing and evacuating the world (in some ways this may of been one of the few reasons humanity managed to flourish).

However the Flyin Polyps didn't all vanish, in the darkest and most secluded areas of the world (usually deep underground) small pockets of Flying Polyp are said to reside, waiting for a chance to be released into the world once more.