Think back to the covers of the Animorphs book series , and you’ll know exactly what we’re talking about here. You know, that mid-transformation stage where the kid is halfway to becoming a rat.

Here are three album covers that give off the same type of energy as the grim-visaged animal children who haunted our middle school dreams.

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‘Diamond Dogs’ by David Bowie

David Bowie’s eighth album, Diamond Dogs , was released in May 1974, and the album art is still as striking today as it was back then. On first glance, it looks innocuous enough: Like Bowie is just lounging naked on the floor. But the full spread album cover reveals Bowie as a half-man, half-dog creature.

Belgian artist Guy Peellaert painted the spread based on a photograph by Terry O’Neil. The dog body was based on a Great Dane that Bowie brought to the photo session.…