Creatures of the Mist

The following creatures inhabit an alternate reality that accidentally intersects with our own when an experiment at the Arrowhead Project headquarters goes terribly wrong. The phenomenon first manifests in Bridgton, Maine, and presumably spreads across an unknown amount of the country. An unusual white mist spreads all over the area, bringing even more terrifying creatures with it. The creatures are featured in a short story by Stephen King, and a film based on the story directed by Frank Darabont. Both focus on the story of a group of survivors that take shelter in the local grocery store.

Behemoth
A behemoth with six legs. Other than the legs, with hundreds of the aforementioned small flying creatures attached to them, this creature is unseen. Although the creature's exact size is never specified, David gets the impression that its size would make a blue whale resemble a trout if both were posed together, and its weight is sufficient to leave six-foot-deep footprints the size of a large SUV in solid concrete.

Spider
Black spider-like predators each about the size of a dog, which hunt by scent. These have the ability to project acidic "spider-webs" which can burn through materials like cloth and flesh. Covered in long hairs, these spiders lay hundreds of eggs in live humans, who are coccooned in webbing. The eggs take about a day to hatch.

Pterodactyl
Pterodactyl-like creatures which pluck the wasp-like creatures off of the store windows. Not much else is known about these creatures.

Wasp
Small, plump, flying creatures between two and four feet long which swarm over the store windows at night. These creatures have pink, burnt-flesh colored skin, and their eyes are on stalks protruding from their heads. Apparently attracted to light, these large flying wasp monsters have a neuro toxin that causes massive swelling and death within a few minutes.

Tentacles
Squid-like tentacles that kill a man in the storage room of the survivor's shelter. The suction cups on the tentacle serve as mouths, consuming him as the tentacles envelop him. It is unknown what type of creature the tentacles are attached to.When a severed tentacle is poked it rapidly turns into a foul smelling liquid.

Theories
Some believe the tentacles from the loading dock to belong to the behemoth seen walking across the highway.

Behind the scenes

 * The developers of Half-Life have listed The Mist as one of their primary influences for the game's plot. The first game in the series was originally going to be called Quiver, in reference to the Arrowhead military base.
 * The Silent Hill series of games may have been influenced by The Mist, since they both take place in mist-covered, monster-infested towns.
 * Similar creatures also appear in From a Buick 8, also by Stephen King.
 * The Mist may have been inspired by an earlier horror story by H.F. Arnold called The Night Wire, which was published in Weird Tales in 1926. Full story can be found here: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Night_Wire

Appearances

 * The Mist, by Stephen King (First Appearance)
 * The Mist (2007 Film)