All The Easter Eggs in Creep, Skrag, Creep By Stephen Newton “They fastened around my waist another black and silver symboled belt, and set upon my head a chaplet of the black oak leaves. De Keradel drew from his belt the maul and put it in my hand. I shrank from its touch and dropped it. He picked it up and closed my fingers around it. I tried to unclose them and could not, although the touch of the maul was loathsome. I raised the maul and looked at it. It was heavy and black with age… like the belt… like the chaplet. It was shaped all of one piece as though carved from the heart of oak; shaft in center, ends of its massive head blunt.  The mael bennique! The beater in of breasts! Heart crusher! And I knew that its blackness was less from age than from red baptisms.”  – Creep, Shadow! Abraham Merritt This article is a follow-up to my Developer Diary article for my latest adventure, Creep, Skrag, Creep!. In that article, I noted that two of the strongest influences for the adventure were Abraham Merritt’s 1934 novel Creep, Shadow!, and the 1979 film Alien directed by Ridley Scott—as well as other films like Halloween and The Thing.  Fans of those books who have read Creep, Skrag, Creep! may have spotted some familiar names nodding to those sources, and now I’ll just lay them all out here for your reading pleasure. As always, spoilers ahead,...