deformed

"It seemed that none of them could speak English, but the situation wanted clearing up, for the creature with the big head was growing furiously angry and, uttering wild beast cries, he had laid his deformed hands upon me and was dragging me out of bed, regardless of the fresh flow of blood from my wound.

As I did so I struck against an elderly, deformed man, who had been behind me, and I knocked down several books which he was carrying.