Oh no...she needed a huge ass factory to run that tiny body. Edison's last statement is him realizing how amazing God's creation of humans are seeing that our body basically have the output of a huge ass factory in our small frame.
This is from a magazine that is basically about making extremely short horror stories, so there isn't much time to develop things. His other works are less flat.
Looks like she's just a head mounted onto a table, and that somewhere else there's a large facility that handles body fluids and respiration. I like the weird machinery that looks like a large heart in particular.
The men were just unlucky to enter the 'stomach unit', and it seems like efficiency isn't great if whole pig carcasses are being thrown in there.