The Cannibal Within (9 page)

Their hands and feet appear human—except the nails—if such talons can be called nails—are long and hard. Like wolves, they typically walk on the tips of their feet.

The skin, the largest of their sense organs, is yellowish in color, like the wax of an old candle. Completely hairless, it is hypersensitive to ultraviolet radiation, and a few hours in sunlight makes it crack and bleed. Wrinkled from birth, their skin hangs loosely on their bodies.

Curiously, the transhumans seem to have insufficient sweat glands. Thus, although they breath oxygen, they prefer to stay around or in water in warm weather. That is why most contacts with these creatures will occur in association with water: fresh rainfall, springs, lakes, or rivers.

Gender Differences
The bodies of the males are arrogantly robust. Lean and deadly, with defined, firm, herculean physiques, the transhuman males are about six and a half feet tall and weigh about 250 pounds. Their massive torsos—which lack the vestigial nipples found on human males—are muscular and taut.

The bodies of the females—if such caricatures of the feminine form can be called female—are smaller and stouter and uglier. Aesthetic atrocities, the females are about six feet tall and weigh about 350 pounds. Menacingly overripe, they have pot bellies, well-fed thighs and buttocks, and huge breasts studded with brown-colored nipples.

For their size, both male and female transhumans are remarkably powerful. A transhuman adult can easily crush human bones without using tools.

Sex Organs

Among primate species, meat eaters have the largest sexual organs. As the most carnivorous of primates, the transhumans have the largest genitalia.

(Flaunting their sexuality, these shameless creatures rarely wear clothing. Although fond of jewelry—such as copper bracelets, silver anklets, and bronze nose rings—they believe clothing is the ceremonial regalia of savages.)

The transhuman penis, an evil abnormality, is gruesomely exaggerated in size. When awakened by lust, it resembles a long and thick boa snake.

Their testicles—each the size of a small orange—possess extraordinary fertility. Whereas the typical human male will ejaculate only 18 quarts of semen in his lifetime, a transhuman male, with his spectacular orgasms and seemingly inexhaustible virility, will discharge about up to one-half cup of reproductive fluids per sexual release.

To accommodate the reproductive protuberance of the males, the females have big and greedy vulvas. Indeed, the female genitalia—gaping chasms that are foul and enormous—are so large that painful childbirth is unknown among them.

The labial lips of the females—red and moist like poisonous spring flowers—hang from their groins like slabs of meat. The clitoris—a monstrous deformity—has the length and girth of a small human penis.

According to the superstitions of these monsters, females are actually the equivalent of castrated males. The vagina, which they believe is a flesh wound—a gaping wound that bleeds—is a supernatural injury. The female is cut by nature to create ‘a magic door’ so that souls may enter this world.

As long as the vaginal injury is fresh—fertile because it is bloody—the female can bring forth children. When the wound heals—when menopause occurs—the female becomes sterile.

Life is by wetness, say the transhumans, and death is by dryness.

Double Brains:
The transhumans have two brains: a primary brain inside their distended skulls and a secondary brain located in the abdominal region.

Their binary brain system allows them to project and receive thoughts beyond their bodies. Unlike humans, their highly evolved minds are not limited by the sizes of their skins.

The radius of their minds, however, is not infinite. The strongest ones—especially developed adult males—can project and receive thoughts up to a 1000 yards away, but the exercise of telepathy at such extreme distances fatigues them.

Telepathy And Its Uses
The monsters use telepathy as their primary method of communication. Only lower animals, they believe, communicate with sounds or gestures.

The monsters also use telepathy—which they call primary intellection—to help them hunt. Utilizing their double brains as a weapon, they confuse and stampede their prey with telepathic assaults.

The telepathic prowess of these monsters—although formidable—can be defeated. Although they can influence their victims—causing hallucinations, planting suggestions, creating false memories—they cannot compel.

A strong human will can neutralize their cerebral aggressions. In the battlefield of the mind, the human can triumph.

Hallucination And Its Uses
The telepathically induced hallucinations of the monsters— ‘tactical lies,’ as they call them—are especially dangerous.

During their stealthy forays into our world, these masters of illusion can appear in any number of forms. Always seen at night, they may appear as puritanic gods, bringing commandments or revelations, beautiful succubi, flaunting their high and youthful breasts, androgynous angels, pulsating with light and fire, ghoulish old vampires, lusting for blood and shapely flesh, kindly space travelers, conveying messages of hope and peace, and malignant grey aliens, stalking victims for their vivisections,

Most terrifying of all, the transhumans can even make themselves invisible. Often mistaken for ghosts or poltergeists when they are in this form, the transhumans can telepathically suppress the sensory areas of the human brain and literally disappear from sight. The targeted victim—an unfortunate man, woman, or child--is then eaten alive, raped, or abducted by unseen horrors.

Feeding Habits
Technically, the monsters are omni-carnivores. Since ‘the blood is the life,’ they will eat anything that lives and bleeds.

The brain—a special repository of spiritual power—the seat of memory, judgement and thought—is their favorite food. When pinkish-gray in color, it is considered especially delicious.

The liver—which they consider poisonous—is always extracted and discarded.

When eating humans, the monsters classify their victims as giants, dwarfs, and worms. These correspond to adults, children, and embryos respectively.

Although dead flesh is normally tabu to these creatures— eating carrion, they believe, shortens the life span—there is one exception. In a special religious ritual, they will eat animals (including humans) killed by lightning.

During all feedings, they allow no metals to touch their food. Believing that metal poisons meat, they eat with naked hands.

Cannibalism:
True to their fiercely predatory nature, these monsters love to devour one another. Although the supply is finite, they believe transhuman meat is the most perfect of all foods. When one transhuman eats another, however, the indulgence is always surrounded by taboos. Called a ‘Cannibal Hunt’— the time when ‘souls are torn with violence from beautiful flesh’—the practice is restricted to special times in special places with special methods.

Only lower animals—such as humans—are eaten without ritual.

‘Thrill Killings’—A Crime In The Eyes Of The Monsters
All ‘thrill killings’—all simple murders in which no flesh is eaten—are strictly prohibited by transhuman law and custom.

Killing without eating—something that occurs in human wars—is a crime against nature. No predator, say the monsters, should ever squander death.

According to their ancient superstitions, uneaten murder victims return as vengeful ghosts. This applies to all species.

Chapter VII The Life Cycle Of The Master Species

‘The grain produces the seed, and the seed produces the grain. Learn from this.’
Occult Teaching on the ‘Circle of Life’

The Infancy Years Of The Transhumans
After the copulation of these monsters, baby transhumans are born after a long pregnancy. Typically, the child spends eleven months in the maternal darkness of the womb.

There are always two babies—always identical twins—per pregnancy. The infants, who are normally delivered about ten minutes apart, typically laugh at birth. The crying of newborns is a characteristic of only lower or ‘simian man.’

Most transhuman babies are born healthy, but the few who are sickly, puny, misshapen, or obviously imbecilic are devoured immediately by the parents. Strict eugenicists who have evolved beyond compassion, the transhumans believe that inferior offspring—the so-called ‘useless eaters’—should not be allowed to pollute the species.

The healthy newborns are welcomed into the world with an ancient ceremony. Anointed with a mixture of fresh blood and fresh earth, they are given ‘names of power’ by the mother. The father, meanwhile, devours the afterbirths and umbilical cords.

Transhuman babies usually learn to walk within hours of leaving the womb. (Like the legendary goddess Athena, these creatures really have no childhood.) Highly precocious, no transhuman ever has to crawl.

Feeding The Monster Babies
Transhuman babies feed on milk until the age of six months. They are violent eaters—aggressive obscenities who often bruise and injure the teats of their mothers.

At six months, the twins are given their first taste of blood. Called the ‘Blood Sacrament,’ the mother tears off a primate head and holds it aloft so that warm arterial fluid runs down on to her bosom. Her hungry babies—cowering in the shadows of her colossal breasts—are forced to lick the blood from her nipples.

‘Milk is for infants,’ she declares, as she watches her twins feed on the crimson fluid. ‘Blood is for adults.’

What Happens When The Monsters Grow Teeth The twins live on blood until they grow teeth. Most transhumans have a full set of teeth by the age of one year.

Once they have teeth, the children can then eat raw meat and brain. In another venerable rite, the ‘Sacrament of the First Flesh,’ the child is given his first meat with these words: ‘This victim dies so that you may live. In all future time, do this in remembrance of him.’

The whole ceremony is carried out with great solemnity. Their ‘first kill,’ like our ‘first love,’ is a life-shaping experience. The first time in anything, they believe, has a kind of magical efficacy.

The victim for the ‘sacrament of the first flesh’ is carefully selected. He must be strong, healthy, and unblemished, and must belong to the master species. As the highest of all organisms, transhumans make the best of all possible food.

To guarantee that the first meat is perfect, it is the custom of the transhumans to feed one of the twins to the other. The smaller or less energetic sibling is eaten by the stronger.

In this first meal—a grisly ritual death—no food is wasted. The sibling chosen to survive is first starved for a few days (to insure he eats with enthusiasm and desire), and then he is fed his brother piece by piece, starting with the extremities.

To keep the meat alive and fresh, the victim is slowly dismembered over several days. Non-fatal mutilations come first—all critical organs are kept intact and alive as long as possible—but ultimately the dying twin is tortured to death. In effect, he dies ‘a death from a thousand cuts.’

This evil feast—the supreme outrage of fratricidal cannibalism, of sibling devouring sibling—helps a transhuman child to grow up intelligent, strong, tenacious, and purposeful.

Later Childhood Of The Monsters
A transhuman child has the intelligence and strength of a human (‘simian man’) adult by the age of four. Although they are still considered children by their own species, they are old enough to hunt humans in our surface world.

After making a pact with a sanguinary god named Az, the neophyte joins his first predatory band. Like wolves, the transhumans form aggressive hunting packs.

From the older hunters, the novice learns his craft. After mastering the technique of moving by night and attacking by surprise, the novice learns the locations of the exits to man’s world, the typography of the ‘killing fields,’ and the peculiar vulnerabilities of the human race.

Early in his education, the novice is also taught how to identify the distinctive scent of preferred victims. The sense of smell—the most emotive of all senses—is hypersensitive in transhumans, and at a great distance—with their nostrils quivering like those of hounds sniffing their prey—they can detect the fresh scent peculiar to healthy, lesion-free humans.

The adults also teach the neophytes the art of culling the human herd. Strays—individuals travelling in isolated districts at night—are the most convenient victims, but any large gathering of people—soldiers in battle, devotees at prayer, spectators at concerts or sporting events—are opportunities for feeding. When thousands of human strangers mass together, they never seem to notice the disappearance of four or five people at the edges.

Puberty
At the age nine years, the transhuman enters puberty. From that age, they have a ‘duty to breed.’

Although these perverse beings are pansexuals—they will mate with any species and any gender—their first sexual encounter is always a frightful orgy with their own fathers. The incest taboo, which is common among lower animals, is unknown among these monsters.

The first sexual experience of the transhumans—the ‘Rite of the White Stains’—is the moral equivalent of rape. The transhuman male—incapable of tenderness or affection— bites, penetrates, thrusts, and pollutes. A tyrant during copulation, his penis is a living weapon.