Skin deep
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When a routine skin irritation turns into a living nightmare, a man finds himself infected by something far more sinister than a simple rash. As his body begins to mutate in grotesque and uncontrollable ways, he's drawn into the web of a mysterious biotech organization known as Dermatek. They offer answers-but at a cost no one could survive intact.
What begins as oozing blisters and subdermal twitching quickly evolves into full-scale biological horror: skin that peels like latex to reveal chitin, bones that warp and twist on their own, and the disturbing realization that he's not the only one infected. There's a purpose behind the transformation... and a mother waiting for her children to hatch.
Skin Deep is a visceral journey through the breakdown of the human body and mind-a grotesque metamorphosis set in the heart of a modern city where infection is evolution, and pain is only the beginning.
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