"Satan here held his Babylonish court, and the leprous limbs of phosphorescent Lilith were laved. Half-formed shapes of Hell strode gigantically in silence holding half-eaten things whose still surviving portions screamed for mercy or laughed with madness. Odours of incense and corruption joined in sickening concert, and the black air was alive with the cloudy, semi-visible bulk of shapeless elemental things. Moloch and Ashtaroth were not absent; for in this quintessence of all damnation the bounds of consciousness were let down, and man's fancy lay open to vistas of every forbidden dimension that evil had power to mould."