Here’s a real-life tale of body horror just in time for Halloween: A farmer whose blurry and itchy eyes were caused by an infestation of worms, some of which had already started to spawn offspring.

Doctors in South Korea detailed the eye-catching case over the weekend in the New England Journal of Medicine. The 71-year-old’s eyes were riddled with a species of parasitic roundworm that typically infects other animals. Thankfully, they successfully removed the man’s unwelcome guests with no complications.

“The patient is doing very well,” lead author Ji Eun Song, an ophthalmologist at Kangwon National University Hospital, told Gizmodo in an email.

The hills have eyeworms

According to Song, the man originally visited their hospital seeking cataract surgery.

Various images of the worms retrieved from the man’s eyes. © Ji Eun Song and Kyuseong Jo/NEJM

The man reported he had been experiencing persistent bouts of redness, blurred vision, and foreign body sensations in both eyes for about two months.…