lean goatish figures of pale stone , tall as human beings and equally bipedal , with insane eyes rolled upwards in each socket , with yellow teeth gaping and shallow jaws red with slick paint , they crouched , lunged at each other with lowered horns or cloven hooves , fought with each other to grab a torn , flayed bundle that one of the creatures hugged to itself possessively with snarling greed : the mutilated body of a human child .