You goofed and forgot to binmode IMAGE or die "Couldn't binmode image". Always do that when working with binary data. You also never close FH. If you meant to just return the contents of the file then you're better off writing that as a plain read - you're forcing perl to jump through hoops.

# Ok, could be better
local $/;
open ( FH , '/path/to/some/image' ) or confess $!;
binmode FH or confess $!;
my $image = readline *FH;
close FH or confess $!;
return $image;

# Better
open ( FH , '/path/to/some/image' ) or confess $!;
binmode FH or confess $!;
my $image;
read FH, $image, -s FH;
close FH or confess $!;
return $image;

# Best
open ( FH , '/path/to/some/image' ) or confess $!;
my $image;
read FH, $image, -s FH;
close FH or confess $!;
return \ $image;

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