"Good heavens, something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. Now it's another one, and another one, and another one. They look like tentacles to me. There, I can see the thing's body now. It's large, large as a bear. It glistens like wet leather. But that face, it -- it -- Ladies and gentlemen, it's indescribable. I can hardly force myself to keep looking at it -- it's so awful. Its eyes are black and they gleam like a serpent. The mouth is a kind of V-shaped, with saliva dripping from its rimless lips that seem to quiver and pulsate. And the monster or whatever it is can hardly move. It seems weighed down by possibly gravity or