What loomed was a flayed man with his brisket tacked open like a cooling beef and his skull peeled, blue and bulbous and palely luminescent, black grots his eyeholes and bloody mouth gaped tongueless. The traveler had seized his fingers in his jaws, but it was not alone this horror that he cried. Beyond the flayed man dimly adumbrate another figure paled, for his surgeons move about the world even as you and I.
The scene described evokes a visceral horror, featuring a man who is gruesomely mutilated, his flesh exposed as if displayed like a piece of meat. His skull, deformed and eerie, adds to the macabre imagery, with dark holes for eyes and a mouth that remains silent yet haunting. The traveler, confronted by this nightmare, appears desperate, indicating that the horror is not just a solitary figure but part of a larger,...