hair and - 17
man- 147
brain 10
-like carnivorous plant stamen 53
dancing - to - 95
hungry for -s 167
broom
- raised like spear 216
broomsticks
legs like - 122
brother 30, 38, 50, 115, 117, 178, 180, 182
not like a - 28
burial
- at sea 125
- of one’s shadow 187
- wraith 162
camera 127, 192
police -s switched off at the time of gunshot 43
spinning in front of 51
trail - 171–75
carnivorous plant 53
carnival 4–5, 38, 163–64
cat 84
- in heat 50
- knocking keepsake 115
- meowing mournfully 83
cellar door 93
cemetery 128
-ies, trolls guarding 162
choose your own adventure 113
claw 21, 172, 176
- hammer 167
clatter
- of cloven hooves 230
cold patch 258
counternarrative
not around to offer a - 45
corpses 210
- of frozen climbers 125
cosmically positioned rock 240
creature 24–25, 68, 114, 143–44, 175, 197, 201, 206, 253
all God’s -s 93
- in shape of leg 195–96
- living in the basement 33–35
darkened hallway
naked and hairy in a - 102
demon 163, 230
- in art installation 47–50
- in the movie Legend 68
husbands defeating -s in video games 114
dog 4, 57, 96, 125, 127, 180, 187, 190–91, 236
- let out to pee 54
- park 25
- paws instead of human paws 26
- with crescent scar on face 186
good - 161
hot -s 34
Yorkie - 93
wild -s 126
gas mask 73–77
ghost 107–109, 111, 129, 242
- in painting 234
- of wheat 90
-ly white fingers 142
specific conditions -s only emerge under 106
gnarled horns 163
grimalkin 17
finger 9, 40, 56, 83, 91, 97, 102, 107, 121, 128, 141–44, 147, 166, 181, 188, 191, 206–207, 236, 244, 255, 258
final - of liquor 62
-s in bubbling mud 141
long-nailed - 39
-nails 179, 243
severed vampire -s 173–74
lick
- of the neck 158
-ed lips 80
-ed nose 96
-ed toes by foam 115
man’s face
- grinning 63
mask 181, 208
gas - 73–77
man named only the - 177
maze 127, 129, 142
meat 61, 88–90
always hungry for - 50
- stew 121
pink - of heel 76
thin strips of - 213
two slabs of - 212
milk 237
human - 219–24
-ing of toxins 247, 249–50
moaning 50, 116
moonlight 109, 142, 183
morgue 161
mother 9–14, 18–20, 29–30, 38, 87–91, 102, 121–23, 143, 188, 208
avenging - 245
- as provider 209–13
- eating meat out of a napkin 89
- looking for shelter 34–35
- struggling with addiction 9–15, 68–72
- tossing flesh in trash with chopsticks 190
-hood, anxiety about 251–55
-in-law 116–17
-mayhem 189–94
-’s milk 219
single and missing - 226
step- 94
oil 205–208, 241, 243
paint 227–31
not - but blood 135
-ing with blood 231
peeled - 31–32
painting 233–37
iconic -s 234
- of Heaven 227
parakeets 257–58
raccoon
not intimidated by -s 60
- paws 122
rat 210, 215–18
scaled flesh 33
scar
dog with - on face 186
- tissue 254
-s on left shoulders 121
shriek 41, 141, 199
sister 4, 17–21, 117, 131, 136, 166
identical -s 121–23
kitten climbing out of - 17
lost -s 131
milk -s 220
- distrustful of brother-in-law 115
-s boiling remnants of a body 121
skeleton 258
- hand 191, 193–94
spine 196
bulging disc in lower - 122
knotted - 32
- made of little eyes and ears 148
weak spring sun on -s 206
subterranean torture chamber 72
subway 147–49, 215–17
underworld
video games about - 114
vampire 171–73
veins
- filled with oil 205–207
- in a cat’s ear 18
- in webbed fingers of fortune teller 40
- of mold 32
Vermeer
- next to cursed object 234–35
vertigo 51
vetala 27
wail 71, 116
werewolf 171–72
- heart 175
wheat woman 87–91
wight 162
wings 184
angel - 227
arms opened like - 187
bat - 18
bird - 82
buffalo - 168
witch
- doctor 107
-es who eat children 133, 121–23
zombie apocalypse 166