Still it is observable the animal side of the monster together with its disgusting and putrid features: “It was all eyes—wolfish and mocking—and the rugose insect-like head dissolved at the top to a thin stream of mist which curled putridly about and finally vanished up the chimney.” This animal side that was found in folklore, and in a more subtle way in literature, is evident in some characteristics of the victim, that is the uncle of the protagonist; highlighted in the claws that the prey has: “With blackening and decaying features leered and gibbered at me, and reached out dripping claws to rend me in the fury which this horror had brought.” (111:2) What at the middle of the story seemed to be a formless creature, at the end of the work