The two creatures which emerged in the gathering dusk
held enormity even for the Mouser's drugged mind. Shambling
things, erect like men but taller, with reptilian heads
boned and crested like helmets, feet clawed like a lizard's,
shoulders topped with bony spikes, forelimbs terminating in
a single yard-long claw. In the semidarkness they seemed like
hideous caricatures of fighting men, armored and bearing swords.
dusk did not hide the yellow of their blinking eyes...
- from "The Bleak Shore"