quickly i left the library ; more slowly did i enter the kitchen ; more slowly still did i push open the door to the stairs that plunged into darkness deep , at the bottom of which hung the monster upon the steel hook and stood the glass jar containing the appalling issuance of his loins , pulled whole and slimy and squirming from the belly of the virgin vessel that had borne it , bastard child in the most nightmarish of senses , a headless mass of claws already stained with human blood , with spindly white arms and a chest dominated by razor-sharp fangs that had bitten and snapped and chewed the empty air in its primal rage .