shoggling

Updated: May 1, 2025

Something was moving among the stones in front something with great, hairy, shoggling legs, and a body the size of a thrush and much the same colour. A spider, could it be, of such enormous size? Yet it was; and as truly repulsive and horrible-looking a monster as ever made human flesh creep at beholding. Whack! The stone flung by Holmes struck the ground beside the creature; struck it hard.

Bertram Mitford - The Sign of the Spider