skull-collecting

Updated: May 20, 2025

A moment later another headless body floated past, recalling what An-Tak had told him of the skull-collecting customs of the Wieroo. Bradley wondered how it happened that the first corpse he had encountered in the stream had not been similarly mutilated. The farther he advanced now, the lighter it became.

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Out of Time's Abyss