The tattoos are works of art but also able to predict -or perhaps mold - the future. The main theme is the dangerous nature of the creative imagination. Phelps is killed by the circus freaks in revenge, fulfilling the prophecy of his other special tattoo. Phelps kills his wife Lisabeth, fulfilling the prophecy of one of his special tattoos. Lisabeth, Phelps' wife who has grown to hate him for being fat, dumb, and - after getting the tattoos -freakish. William Philippus Phelps, who is given tattoos by a strange old woman who claims to see the future.
Various Freaks - Performers at the carnival. Skin Man - Tries to remove Phelps' tattoos. Old woman - A blind woman who gives Phelps his tattoo. Lisabeth - Phelps' wife of one year, intensely dissatisfied with her husband. William Philippus Phelps - The Illustrated Man of the title.
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