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[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 92 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I accidentally wrote a story that was similar:

A man lives alone in his apartment. He needs to return to the office for the first time in months. He arrives at the office, and quickly develops excruciating back pain. A few days pass, and he finds himself unable to work. He also starts finding strange bite marks on his neck and back.

He calls out for a few days, but eventually, he has to go back. He arrives at work and sits in his chair. He quickly feels his back pain return, but also strange movements from his chair. He stands and screams, tossing the chair. The office staff are in shock. He then uses a pen knife to cut open the back of his chair. As he does, there are multiple screams, as a large, spine-like centipede emerges from the chair.

I even did the rough draft for the comic, but never finished. Damn I need to.

[-] Stamets@startrek.website 80 points 10 months ago

Yes you do. And then you need to keep it far the fuck away from me.

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago
[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I mean that's el almohadón de plumas but with extra steps

[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'd never heard of them, but I'm definitely checking them out. That's "The Feather Pillow", in english right, by Horacio Quiroga?

[-] mack7400@lemmy.world 62 points 10 months ago

That chair was made for me!

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

Is it the same artist? It has to be, right? There can't be two people capable of thinking up such horrors.

[-] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Nope! Not again.

[-] pennomi@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago

But see, that’s much creepier than some impossible, unknowable horror… it’s something disturbing that conceivably could happen.

[-] Stamets@startrek.website 29 points 10 months ago

Yeah... I've got a real problem with people being near me and me being unaware of them. This... I'd die of fright from the realize they were there before the blade hit anything important.

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'ld burn every piece of furniture and move to a cave.

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Better check inside those rocks, just in case

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

It's a dude in a chair. To me that's just silly

[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

have you met dudes?!

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago
[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago
[-] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

It's so magical, nature can be truly beautiful 😍

[-] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

They can walk as soon as they're born 😍🤗

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

How the fuck do you eat from a can like that?

[-] havokdj@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Or even breathe to be honest

[-] swab148@startrek.website 24 points 10 months ago

Didn't Impractical Jokers do this as a punishment once?

[-] jacaw@sh.itjust.works 24 points 10 months ago

This is a fantastic comment to put under any horror story

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

nicest murr punishment

[-] ocean@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I know there was a try guys video with something like this a couple years back, sans murder

[-] myfaceistupid@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

The human chair was adapted from a story by author Edogawa Ranpo though.

[-] udon@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

My favorite adoption of the trope is in this masterpiece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_oFxidMm60

[-] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 22 points 10 months ago

He was trying to hide and eating canned fish?

[-] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago
[-] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

nods poop bag

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

So was that really a broken spring?

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago

Iain M Banks has entered the chat

[-] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

There's definitely some weird shit in his books.

[-] graymess@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Got my attention. I've read 1.5 Banks novels in the Culture series and so far nothing living in chairs.

[-] Justas@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Living? No. Chair? Yes.

[-] d3m0nr4v3r@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

Don't really get the reference but upvoting Ian M. Banks regardless.

[-] GabrielBell12fi@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

On an unrelated note, I thought this was a public safety broadcast about the dangers of not wearing a seatbelt.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 10 months ago

"The call is coming from inside the chair!"

[-] outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago

“I’m living in your walls!” so? I’m living in your chair

[-] darcy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago
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