At short irregular intervals the hell-broth in the hole seemed as if boiling up.

It rose and fell again and turned over, showing in fresh form much of the nauseous detail which had been visible earlier.

The worst parts were the great masses of the flesh of the monstrous Worm, in all its red and sickening aspect.
Such fragments had been bad enough before, but now they were infinitely worse.

Corruption comes with startling rapidity to beings whose destruction has been due wholly or in part to lightning--the whole mass seemed to have become all at once corrupt! The whole surface of the fragments, once alive, was covered with insects, worms, and vermin of all kinds.

The sight was horrible enough, but, with the awful smell added, was simply unbearable.