"133-Man has miniature shapeless Siamese Twin-exhib. in circus-twin surgically detached-disappears-does hideous things with malign life of his own."
H.P. Lovecraft, Commonplace Book
This one isn't too different either but I really wanted to fix up all the linework, color and rendering.
I don't think HPL was the first to come up with this concept but it's one that winds up in lots of media.
Basket Case is probably the most true to the Lovecraft idea. Two conjoined twins, one deformed, are surgically separated and the less presentable twin commits a bunch of horrific murders.
In that same vein, the Tales From the Crypt episode The Ventriloquit's Dummy features Don Rickles as a performer whose act is so good because he's got a deformed conjoined twin on his hand.
The X-Files episode Humbug gets pretty close to HPL's entry as well. In it, a circus performer has a "conjoined" twin that can actually extricate itself and commits a bunch of murders.
The Dark Half (Romero's film based on Stephen King's novel) features a mostly absorbed twin that resurfaces later...Malignant seemed like a shoddy remake of an already sub-par film.
In a turn, Total Recall features a deformed conjoined twin that's not violent, but rather, a revolutionary hoping to free the people of Mars.
All this is to say, this concept is one that really sticks in the American and probably human imagination.
Tomorrow's is one more smaller creature that I maybe went a little overboard with.
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