"When they find the unfortunate corpses of the cultists of Aten, they possess them. Imagine their hungers and thirsts and infernal joy at the feeling of wind on flesh. Some have only known the howling voids and sightless zones. They walk, fire spirit fused to soul, Pilgrims of Flame. But the star that burns twice as bright burns half as long. The devil rages when he knows his time is short. The bodies blister, simmer, and cook - eventually falling to ash and blood steam. And then those spirits of flame go back into the burning dark, awaiting another eon for a time when they might be plucked and dragged out into the land of the flesh."
— The Buzzing, The Secret World
"Those FBI idiots destroyed Jason's body, so now he needs a new one. The ones he's jumping in and out of, they can't last. They get diseased, he gets weak."
— Creighton Duke, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday
"It was only on his way back to the stairs that he discovered the woman in the blue gown. It looked as if she was lying on the floor, laughing at something. Then he saw her jaw had been wrenched down until its muscles tore. The thing in her throat had gone, leaving behind a ragged red hole. There was very little blood. Most of it had already oxidized.
‘It dries out the host,’ he thought, intrigued. ‘So it has to keep moving on.’
‘It dries out the host,’ he thought, intrigued. ‘So it has to keep moving on.’
—Wonders To Come, by Christopher Fowler
"Shit. I think I'm burning through the oven glove. Human flesh, tcha! What are you gonna do with it?"
—Beroul, Hellblazer: All His Engines
"When SCP-035 is placed on the face of an individual, an alternate brain wave pattern from SCP-035 overlaps that of the original host, effectively snuffing it out and causing brain death to the subject. Subject then claims to be the consciousness contained within SCP-035. The bodies of "possessed" subjects decay at a highly accelerated rate, eventually becoming little more than mummified corpses. Nevertheless, SCP-035 has demonstrated the ability to remain in cognitive control of a body experiencing severe structural damage, even if the subject's body literally decays to the point where motion is not mechanically possible."
