JDM x HPL
Friday, September 03, 2010
It was a golden toad, a nasty looking thing the size of my fist. It had ruby eyes, a rhino horn and its head, and a body worked of overlapping scales like a fish.
"This is the only object we have on hand at the moment, sir. It is completely documented and authenticated. Javanese Empire, close to two thousand years old."
It had a look of ancient, sardonic evil.
- John D. MacDonald, A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965)