"When Dr. Trask, the anthropologist, stooped to classify the skulls, he found a degraded mixture which utterly baffled him. They were mostly lower than the Piltdown man in the scale of evolution, but in every case definitely human. Many were of higher grade, and a very few were the skulls of supremely and sensitively developed types. All the bones were gnawed, mostly by rats, but somewhat by others of the half-human drove."
"Horror piled on horror as we began to interpret the architectural remains.
The quadruped things—with their occasional recruits from the biped class—had been
kept in stone pens, out of which they must have broken in their last delirium of hunger or rat-fear."
H.P. Lovecraft, The Rats In the Walls
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