Surreal, a horror movie, It was mostly composed of bone and viscera, a nightmarish fusion of human remains. Several grinning skulls mounted on long, exposed spines—like a twisted hydra—snaked through the air. Only two arms, but impossibly long, constructed from numerous arm bones connected by ten or more elbows, moved in a serpentine motion, quick and slithering. Countless legs splayed out in a grotesque circle, making it look like some monstrous fusion of a table or a twisted ballroom gown. At the center of its torso, a massive cage of rib bones encased the black obsidian mirror—Aleph- 13—bound in place by ropes of viscera, pulsating faintly as though alive