The ex-lead singer of the Vo-Lites emerged from the kitchen, brandishing a baseball bat slimed with blood and hair.

When she withdrew it, slimed with blood and ichor, she held in her hand a small clay figurine, bulbous in form.

Both of his hands were slimed with blood; he looked like a man who has drawn on a pair of red gloves.

It was purple, slimed with blood, connected by a ropy pulsing vein; it looked like some internal organ, a liver or a spleen.