Thorne Smith 
Skin and Bones [PDF ebook] 

Thorne Smith’s imaginative novel Skin and Bones takes the concept of suffering for one’s art to a whole new level. While developing film, a photographer accidentally creates a chemical concoction that produces an exceedingly bizarre phenomenon — he spontaneously begins to switch back and forth between a normal human appearance and that of a walking skeleton. Can he make a life worth living with this condition?