AKA: Unknown
Location: Abyssal Plain
Short Story: In the Abyss
Author: H.G. Wells
Natural History:
The Abyss creatures are strange vertebrated humanoids that live at the bottom of the ocean.
They have dark purple heads that are dimly suggestive of a chameleon's, but with a much higher forehead and such a braincase as no reptile has ever before displayed. The vertical pitch of the face gives them the most extraordinary resemblance to a human being.
Two large and protruding eyes project from sockets in chameleon fashion, and they have a broad reptilian mouth with horny lips beneath their small nostrils. Two large operculum replace the ears and filamentous gills branch out from behind them.
The Abyss Creatures are bipeds with an almost globular body poised on two frog-like legs and a long thick tail. It's forelimbs grotesquely caricatured the human hand, much like a frog's do. The color of the creatures is variegated; it's head, hands, and legs were purple; but its skin,which hangs loosely upon them, is a phosphorescent grey. In their hands they sometimes carry a long shaft of bone tipped with copper.
In the deep, the creatures live in a large city with a wall made of human skulls, water-logged wood, and twisted wire-rope surrounding it. The city seems to glow like drowned moonshine due to phosphorescent bones that were used to create many of the roofless structures.
"At last this unknown creature of the abyss blinked its eyes open, and, shading them with its disengaged hand, opened its mouth and gave vent to a shouting noise, articulate almost as speech might be, that penetrated even the steel case and the padded jacket of the sphere."
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