I had much more vivid horrors than Lovecraft's nameless ickinesses to write about now.

I've pitched pennies and downed bennies

a possessory interest; a possessory lord

Both he and Banks were alarmed to find clear and unmistakable evidence of cannibalism, although it was the practice of sodomy that most intrigued Banks; although a voracious heterosexual, he was hardly a pansexualist.