Talk:The Melon Head Illustration/@comment-24379671-20140705172542/@comment-4849011-20140723154751

Also, this story isn't so much about the melon heads themselves as it is about the mystery of the benefactor's reaction to them. I wanted the reader to feel horror at the experiments that created the melon heads, but I also wanted to leave the reader wondering why the woman was so frightened by them. Was she a relative of one of the children who became the melon heads, or of the cruel doctor? Had she witnessed or survived a melon head attack? The reader is free to provide his or her own explanation.