'' the thing that lay half-bent on its side in a foetid pool of greenish-yellow ichor and tarry stickiness was almost nine feet tall, ... it was not quite dead but twitched silently and spasmodically while its chest heaved ...
'' it would be trite and not wholly accurate to say that no human pen could describe it, ... it was partly human, beyond a doubt, with very manlike hands and head, and the goatish, chinless face had the stamp of the whateleys upon it. but the torso and lower parts of the body were teratologically fabulous, ... above the waist it was semi-anthropomorphic, ... below the waist, though, it was the worst; for here all human resemblance left off and sheer phantasy began. the skin was thickly covered with coarse black fur ... the limbs, save for their black fur, roughly resembled the hind legs of prehistoric earth's giant saurians; ...
'' of genuine blood there was none; only the foetid greenish-yellow ichor which trickled along the painted floor beyond the radius of the stickiness, and left a curious discolouration behind it. ... a change came over the yellow, goatish face of the prostrate thing, and the great black eyes fell in ... one need not describe the kind and rate of shrinkage and disintegration that occurred ... it is permissible to say that, aside from the external appearance of face and hands, ... whateley had had no skull or bony skeleton; at least in any true or stable sense. ''
h.p.lovecraft, the dunwich horror.
i: teratological research at "the teratology society".
ii: teratology at "wikipedia".
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