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[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 93 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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 81 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago
[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 63 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That chair was made for me!

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago

Nope! Not again.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Stamets@startrek.website 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Better check inside those rocks, just in case

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

have you met dudes?!

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] havokdj@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or even breathe to be honest

[–] swab148@startrek.website 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] jacaw@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a fantastic comment to put under any horror story

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

nicest murr punishment

[–] ocean@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago

He was trying to hide and eating canned fish?

[–] myfaceistupid@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] udon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

My favorite adoption of the trope is in this masterpiece

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

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

nods poop bag

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

So was that really a broken spring?

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Iain M Banks has entered the chat

There's definitely some weird shit in his books.

[–] graymess@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago

Living? No. Chair? Yes.

[–] d3m0nr4v3r@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] GabrielBell12fi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Lamb@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can someone spoiler and tell me the story? I prefer reading text than comic.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

He become chair

[–] stillitcomes@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I assume Junji Ito changed it a bit but you can read the original (translated) short story by Edogawa Ranpo here: https://pseudopod.org/2021/08/21/pseudopod-771-the-human-chair/

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago

"The call is coming from inside the chair!"

[–] outer_spec@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago