SOURCES:
The Boats of "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson

DESCRIPTION: “... Thus we each of us stared down upon a most unearthly sight; for the valley all beneath us was a-swarm with moving creatures, white and unwholesome in the moonlight, and their movements were somewhat like the movements of monstrous slugs; thogh the things themselves had no resemblance to such in their contours; but minded me of naked humans, very fleshy and crawling upon their stomachs; yet their movements lacked not a surprising rapidity ... for these things below us had each two short and stumpy arms, but the ends appeared divided into hateful and wriggling masses of small tentacles ... for the great eyes, so big as crown pieces, the bill like to an inverted parrot’s, and the slug-like undulating of its white and slimy body ...” (The Boats of Glen Carrig by William Hope Hodgson)

NOTES: The Weed Men live in subterranean brrows with large pit-like openings. They live in large numbers and occasional will immigrate in a devastating route.

HISTORY: The Weed Men are ridiculous if taken outside the novel. Along with the rest of the weird creatures of The Boats of Glen Carrig they seem a natural extension of the bizarre location. The only similar creature are the laien Plant men from Burroughs' The Gods of Mars and Murray Leinster's plant aliens from "Proxima Centauri".

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