Published Oct 22, 2026 9:02 AM EDT Dr. Nick Medford’s patient had plenty of reasons to be terrified of a simple blood test. His body had shrunk down to a fraction of its size, or so he believed, and the physicians looming over him were enormous. Then there was the needle about to pierce his vein: to the patient’s eye, it was larger than his entire arm. It might sound like something out of Alice in Wonderland. But this patient’s story belonged to a different genre entirely. Horror, namely.