Jeff Strand - Graverobbers Wanted - No Experience Necessary

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When you're desperate for money, searching for a little adventure, and aren't the most responsible person in the world, you can end up doing some outrageous things. Which is how Andrew Mayhem, an extremely married father of two, ends up accepting $20,000 to find a key ... a key buried with a body in a shallow grave. When the body turns out to not only be still alive, but armed and dangerous, he realizes that he should have held out for more money. His simple evening of morally questionable manual labor becomes a bizarre game of wits and courage played with an unseen killer with a twisted sense of humor. It's a game that will bring him to a group of filmmakers known as Ghoulish Delights, who are hiding a secret that will test every last bit of Andrew's nerve to discover. And it's impossible to find a babysitter.

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He took a couple more minutes to blend in the makeup, and then nodded with satisfaction at the result. "Now, if this were for real, I'd take longer to ensure that it looks more believable, but this is just a demonstration. Dominick, could you grab me the bottle of blood?"

Dominick took a large bottle from one of the shelves and brought it to him. "Show of hands," said Farley. "Little bit of blood, or lot of blood?All in favor of little blood?"

Nobody but Roger raised their hands. I certainly didn't.

"Lotof blood?"

Everyone else raised their hands.

"Okay, let's dump it on!" Farley poured a generous portion of the blood on Roger's neck. It was thick and looked unnervingly real. "Enough?Never!" He poured on even more, and I could see Roger cringe as it oozed down the side of his neck.

"Am I dead yet?" he asked.

"Oh, yeah, you're dead," said Farley.

"Okay, roll your eyes in the back of your head and let your tongue hang out," said Rachel, appearing out of nowhere with a Polaroid camera. Roger did as instructed, and she snapped a picture. She removed the photo from the camera and handed it to me. "Here. This could be the cover of your magazine."

"Can I get up now?" asked Roger.

"If you want, I could add a small demonic creature gnawing on your throat," Farley offered. "I don't make this offer for everyone, so take it or forever hold your peace."

"I'll hold my peace," said Roger. Farley held the sheet so that it caught most of the blood as Roger sat up.

"Oops, it dripped a bit," Farley pointed out. "But that wasn't your best shirt anyway, was it?"

"Too bad Helen isn't working right now," I said. "We could pay a visit to the hospital and freak her out." After about .0037 of a second's reflection, I decided that it was, in fact,agood thing Helen wasn't working right now.

"I'll give you a free severed thumb effect if you walk around town all day wearing that and a sign that says `Ghoulish Delights was here,'" Farley offered.

"Thanks, but no," said Roger. "How about directing me to the nearest bathroom?"

Linda took him by the hand. "Here, I'll show you." She led him through the doorway. After a moment's consideration, Dominick followed.

"Could I look at one of the scripts?" I asked Rachel.

"Oh, sure, come on back to the waiting room," she said.

Looking at the script was just to satisfy my own curiosity. I really didn't have much to go on toward figuring out who buried Michael and stabbed Jennifer, but I was pretty sure it hadn't been anyone in Ghoulish Delights. After all, could I really stand there and talk to the killer face-to-face without getting any kind of indication that he or she hated my guts?

Rachel took a binder off her desk and handed it to me. I opened to the first script and quickly flipped through the ten pages. Linda was really on to something when she said they weren't practicing their Academy Awards speeches yet.

Sample dialogue:

MOTHER :Stay away! Stay away, you beast! Stay away!

PSYCHOPATH :Never! You will die, as did my own mother, and as will all the mothers of the world when I'm done!

MOTHER :But...but...it's Father's Day!

While I was perusing the script, Carl walked into the room and asked Rachel something very technical about a new tripod. She answered back with something equally technical and budget-related. Carl tried to explain in very technical terms why the budget-related answer wasn't what he wanted to hear, but Rachel quickly forced him to accept it, and he returned to the back room.

As I set the script back down, I noticed something resting on Rachel's desk that gave my heart a sudden jolt.A deck of cards.Prophecies of the Night.

"Oh, hey, Prophecies of the Night," I said, keeping my voice casual. "Do you play?"

Rachel rolled her eyes. "Oh, God, Carl is always trying to foist that stupid game on us. He plays it once a week with his friends. He got everyone a deck for Christmas, and we all get a new deck on our birthday. I went with him once just to shut him up, but the game makes no sense."

"It is a bit confusing," I agreed, to keep her from giving me a pop quiz on the rules. "Is Carl the only one who plays regularly?"

"No, actually, I think Farley goes with him quite a bit, and Dominick and Linda will go occasionally just to mooch free chips and soda. I remember Mike saying something about shoving a fireplace poker through Carl's left nostril if he didn't shut up about that stupid game, so I don't think he's a regular."

"Do you know where they play? I've been looking for a player's group for a while, but I've never been able to find one."

"They play in the basement ofBalder's Dash on Thursdays. As far as I know they're on for tonight, though you might want to ask Carl to make sure."

What a happy coincidence! I'd looked seven-to-one odds in the face and come out victorious!

"I don't think I'll be able to make it tonight," I lied, "but I might mention it to him some other time. So here're a couple of questions. First, could we possibly tag along when you're filming one of these things? And, second, is there some time we could meet, just us, to talk outside of work?"

"I hope you're not asking me out," she said. "I'm flattered, but I can very clearly see that little ball and chain around your ring finger."

"No, no, it's strictly professional. You look pretty strong, but my wife has access to a drawer full of kitchen knives and knows where I sleep. No, it's that whole human interest deal...what do the people who work at Ghoulish Delights do in their spare time?"

Roger walked into the waiting room with Linda, his throat intact again. "He's all yours," Linda told me with a wide grin.

"Thanks," I said. "Looking snazzy,Rog ."

"I agree. Your throat has never looked better," Rachel commented. To me, she said "How about we meet tomorrow atVon's Gym, 6 A.M.?"

"Um, I've heard rumors that such an hour of the morning exists, but so far it's unconfirmed."

"Great, six o'clock then. I assume you don't have a membership, so you'll need to tell the guy at the front desk that you're there to see me. And as for tagging along with us, we have an appointment tomorrow at noon, and if you show up here around eleven we'll be more than happy to have you."

We thanked her and left the house. "Why do you think she assumed I don't have a gym membership?" I asked Roger as I shut the door behind me.

"I guess she missed all those muscles bursting through your shirt," he replied."A common problem, to be honest."

"Shut up."

"You asked, I told. Hey, what's that on your car?"

There was indeed something on the hood of my car, a bright red box, about one foot square, covered with yellow stars. When we reached the car and saw it up close, it was revealed to be a jack-in-the-box.

"Okay, so what the hell is this all about?" Roger asked.

It was a perfectly innocent-looking jack-in-the-box, but I wasn't sure we were going to like the answer.

Chapter 8

"IT'S NO BIG deal," I said, trying to sound casual."Just a jack-in-the-box. Turn the crank, hear a catchy tune,see a clown pop up, squeal with delight."

"Uh-huh. So why is it sitting here on your car?"

"That I can't answer."

"You think the killer put it here, as a warning?"

"How should I know? I don't even think anyone inthereis the killer! One of them, or all of them, probably just stuck it out here as a prank. We'll turn the handle and see a clown with an axe in his head or something."

"Or it could explode and kill us both," Roger pointed out.

"Now you're getting a little paranoid. Do you think the killer just happened to have a booby-trapped jack-in-the-box sitting around in case we showed up?"

"I don't know, but I certainly welcome you to turn the handle and see what happens. I'll be way the hell over there behind that tree."

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