Editing Fiend Factory (section)

==White Dwarf #18==
'''Mandrake People:''' Humanoid plants who inhabit the forests, and who hate humans for harvesting their unborn babies - mandrakes - as aphrodisiacs.
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'''Hound of Kerenos:''' A variant [[Hellhound]] that is tied to Ice rather than Fire. Taken from [[Michael Moorcock]]'s ''The Bull and the Spear''.
<gallery>hound of kerenos WD 18.jpg</gallery>

'''Phung:''' An insane mantis-headed humanoid that loves to scare people to death, taken from [[Jack Vance]]'s ''City of the Chasch'' novel.
<gallery>phung WD 18.jpg</gallery>

'''Couerl:''' A monstrous cat with a mane of tentacles straight out of A.E. van Vogt's "Black Destroyer" (1939). Explicitly ("distantly") related to the [[Displacer Beast]] and (therefore) to Fiend Folio's Kamadan.
<gallery>couerl WD 18.jpg</gallery>

By the way this April/May 1980 issue is the one wherein the editors posted the Top Ten (and Bottom Five) from a reader poll presumably mooted up to #15 (because the Russian Doll is in it). The Ten got republished in ''Best of White Dwarf Articles''.

'''Top 10'''<br />
1. Necrophidius<br />
2. Russian Doll Monster<br />
3. Svart (?)<br />
4. Needleman<br />
5. Hook Horror<br />
6. Githyanki<br />
7. Imps<br />
8. Volt<br />
9. Urchin<br />
10. Dahdi (?!)<br />

'''Bottom 5''' (worst up top)<br />
1. Nas Nas<br />
2. Dahdi (again)<br />
3. Withra<br />
4. Stinwicodech<br />
5. Pebble Gnome

To each their own, we suppose.