Both conditions in conjunction seemed to have caused poor Joseph to develop excessive growths on his skin and deformed his bones. Most scientists have agreed it’s likely a combination of several different medical conditions stunting and deforming this one poor man, namely Protean syndrome and neurofibromatosis. His disease is actually still not known for sure to this day. A less extreme but just as infamous growth-like disease is related to history’s most popular medical condition, the Elephant Man Joseph Merrick. Those with the condition undergo immense pain, and lose any use of their afflicted limbs. It can be as simple as being allergic to the most mundane of foods like shrimp or peanuts, or in worst cases, even start turning your body into a mass of bone and muscle.įor example, Tree Man Syndrome will cause turn their skin into a tree bark-like texture made of keratonin, the same stuff as dog’s claws, only tougher and stiffer. Humans have gotten lucky with mutations for the past thousand years or so, but every once in a while, a strange disease rears its ugly head and latches onto an unfortunate person. I’m not gonna go into full spoiler town territory for now, though. It is legitimately one of Junji Ito’s most original concepts, and the body horror illustrations in this story are some his best. However, I feel like this story in particular is one that is best experienced without knowing anything about it. Now NORMALLY, I would talk about the story first then share my thoughts on it. Trigger warnings for some REAL bad body horror. In honestly my favorite story this month so far, let’s talk about Layers of Fear (no relation to the horror video game of the same name).
Horror has a lot of layers, and nobody’s better at peeling those layers away than Junji Ito.
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