And even for old music hands, they provide an opportunity to dissect, examine, compare and then restore, bringing the flayed corpse back to full health.

There was, of course, every good reason why the screens should not be up, but still, a city without them was a rare and disconcerting sight, like a flayed corpse in a tank.

'I'll be dancing on your flayed corpse by sundown.'

At first sight, it was a flayed corpse: a mass of yellowish adipose tissue, great ropy blood-vessels, red and blue; all ligament and muscle, wet and sticky-looking and held together by a sac of cling-plastic.

Men rode forward gingerly with knives; even for battle-hardened Shienarans it was no easy task, cutting down the flayed corpses of men they knew.

Julia shows her a flayed corpse in the attic, and shortly after the Cenobites show up.

That may sound like a strange thing to say about a display of some 200 flayed corpses, their muscles peeled back, brains exposed, nerves articulated.

Those always suggested to him the faces of flayed corpses.

Behind its helmet was a face like the face of a flayed corpse.

But how repulsive did a body look that was scaleless as a flayed corpse?