python-skin

Updated: June 21, 2025

For Ul-Jabal, his ghastly impersonation ended, would hurry to the pocket, snatch out the stone, and finding it not the stone he sought, would in all likelihood dash it down, fly away from the corpse as if from plague, and, I hope, straightway go and hang himself. It was at this point that the black mask of Ham framed itself between the python-skin tapestries of the doorway.

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - Prince Zaleski