SOURCE: Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs  (Blue Book, December 1918)

DESCRIPTION: "The creature stood about the height of an average man but appeared much taller from the fact that the joints of his long wings rose fully a foot above his hairless head. The bare arms were long and sinewy, ending in strong, bony hands with clawlike fingers--almost talonlike in their suggestiveness. The white robe was separated in front, revealing skinny legs and the further fact that the thing wore but the single garment, which was of fine, woven cloth. From crown to sole the portions of the body exposed were entirely hairless, and as he noted this, Bradley also noted for the first time the cause of much of the seeming expressionlessness of the creature's countenance--it had neither eye-brows or lashes. The ears were small and rested flat against the skull, which was noticeably round, though the face was quite flat. The creature had small feet, beautifully arched and plump, but so out of keeping with every other physical attribute it possessed as to appear ridiculous. " (Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs)

NOTES: The Wieroos are the dominate species on the island of caspak, achieving a cruel but complex society on their island. Their culture revolves around the collecting of skulls. All Wieroos are male, so they must steal their women from the mainland of Caspak. Caspakians evolve from single cells to humans through a weird evolutionary process. Wieroos are not part of this process.

HISTORY: Burroughs' Wieroos are typical baddies, cruel but weak, like the Mahars of Pellucidar they have only one sex and rule over all others. This is the only portion of The Land That Time Forgot that wasn't serialized, though there are shades of it in the poor adaptation of The People That Time Forgot (1977) The Skulls are a wingless version of the Wieroos.

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