Strange Story Remembered

[calliopes_pen]

I was going through my old Childcraft books, and thought of a story I once read. This wasn't a fanfic, this was included in a book of stories that I read once.

There was some sort of creature that may have been female. It attached itself to a guy, and nobody really noticed. It had hooks in its hands and burrowed into the guy's back. She claimed she owned him now.

He got sicker and sicker--eventually, I think someone may have saved him, by tearing the creature off his back. This may have been an African legend.

It was probably a book on legends that I checked out from the library, or it could have been a book of horror stories for kids. Does that synopsis sound familiar to anyone else?

Comments

[kkglinka.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, yes. I've read this. I have no idea where.

Re: Good luck on your quest!

[calliopes_pen]

It's good to know I'm not the only one that remembers this, then.

[kkglinka.livejournal.com]

Oh, and try Roald Dahl. He may be the culprit. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roald_Dahl_short_stories)

Good luck on your quest!

[paigedayspring.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of Galaxy Express 999- when I was kid, I saw the last half of the movie on TV. I never knew its' name, I just new there was this super cool train flying through space, there were people frozen under ice on one of the planets and people were being made into mechanical parts at the end. It took me 5 years to find out the name and I still haven't found a copy of the movie.

Re: Good luck on your quest!

[kkglinka.livejournal.com]

This Galaxy Express? (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-2733530-2029769?%5Fencoding=UTF8&dym=0&search-type=ss&index=vhs&field-keywords=galaxy%20express&page=1) There was a DVD release, also, but it's well sold out.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

There was a legned that was very like this, only with the genders reversed, that's a Kesh folk tale, and was collected in Ursula K LeGuin's Always Coming Home.