I never knew that was the original author. The game and the book are just an awful (in a good way) experience that left me feeling so gross and hopeless after.
Harlan Ellison narrated the audiobook, and he hammed it up so much when delivering the AM lines (in a good way) that there was really no one else who could have voiced the role in the game by the time it was developed.
The best part about the game is that Ellison also wrote the script and dialogue for it.
I haven't played the game, but it is a series that has been incredibly fascinating to me.
At least with the book, the thing that I find most haunting is the permanence of Ted's body alterations. Your form being forever changed against your will is absolutely disturbing.
Soo they didn’t get sucked in, they were drawn in and couldn’t resist, and rather than becoming monsters the shape of their bodies was deformed. It really hits Junji Ito’s delicate balance of too silly to be taken seriously, while deeply unsettling at the same time.