He had expected a sleek jet-black monster adorned with Tambu's well-known crest... the silver death's head surmounted on a nebula.

A great, featureless head of jet surmounted the heroic figure, a face of eyeless, mouthless, noseless blackness, swirling, moving unsteadily.

At one stage in the journey he became a sulidor in all respects but one: his own high-vaulted bald head surmounted the massive hairy body.

A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings.

A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings... It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.

A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.

A skull-like head set with glaring green eyes surmounted a thin and wiry body, scaled and mottled in squamous shades, with arms of fantastic length hanging like coiled whips at its sides.