Body Horror/Literature: Difference between revisions

* A series by the same author, ''[[Remnants]]'', has a character who has his skin removed and replaced in small squares with a clear substance while his father is forced to watch. Like the morphing above, though, it doesn't hurt the affected person; it just looks ghastly.

* The Matter Manipulator, resident [[Mad Artist]] of ''[[The Pilo Family Circus]]'', uses this as a form of torture against disobedient employees:

** Another of the Matter Manipulator's subjects is Tallow of the Freakshow, so named for the fact that his flesh is ''constantly melting like candlewax, and every so often, he has to reabsorb the pieces back into himself.'' The sign beneath his ''tank'' reads ''"This is Tallow: his every living movement is hellish,"'' and how true.

* ''[[Goosebumps]]'' naturally has this in droves

* In "The Seed from the Sepulchre" by [[Clark Ashton Smith]], there is a horrific man-to-plant transformation.

* R. A. Lafferty's "Dream" is a nice Christmasy story where everyone suddenly starts to dream that they are hideous ogres, crawled over by bugs the whole time, whose digestive system consists of rats that run in and out of their mouths to bring food into their stomachs. But there's an uplifting ending: humanity realizes that their own fate is in their hands, and all they have to do to stop the hideous dreams is to decide, once and for all, that they want to wake up in the real world.

{{spoiler|The mad dream that vanished, however, is the dream that people ''weren't'' hideous ogres..}} }}

* In the [[Cordwainer Smith]] story "A Planet Named Shayol", criminals are exiled to a prison planet inhabited by an alien parasite that keeps the prisoners alive but causes their bodies to grow extra parts - which the planet's single guard harvests when he visits the prisoners, and sends off-world to be used in organ transplants.