SOURCES:
"Nine Yards of Other Cloth' by Manly Wade Wellman (Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1958)

DESCRIPTION: “Gentlemen, don't ask me to say too much what Kalu was. Bones, yes -- something like bear-bones, or big ape bones from a foreign land. And a rotten light to them, so I saw for a moment that the bones weren't empty. Inside the ribs were caged puffy things, like guts and lungs and maybe a heart that skipped and wiggled. The skull had a snout like I can't say what, and in its eye-holes burned blue-green fire. Out came the arm-bones, and the finger-bones were on Shull Cobart.” (“Nine Yards of Other Cloth” by Manly Wade Wellman)

HISTORY: Kalu is an interesting creature because it allowed Wellman to explore the idea of "appearing evil" and "being evil". kalu looks hideous but is in fact kind and good-natured.

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