Box Set: Scary Stories- Vols. 3 & 4 (Chamber Of Horror Book 8) by Wells Billy

Author:Wells, Billy [Wells, Billy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2015-06-24T16:00:00+00:00

NO REST FOR THE DEAD

Mort Spade popped the top on a Rolling Rock and pushed a button on the remote for his TV. He checked the guide and saw the movie, The Body Snatcher, had just started on TNT.

He hated to watch commercials, but he loved horror flicks so he pushed the channel button and saw the opening credits scrolling up on the screen.

“Fuck,” he said, pitching the remote on the sofa. “Black and white.” He wished the movie was in color but decided to watch it anyway.

As he watched Cabman John Gray, played by Boris Karloff, digging up fresh corpses and selling them to a Dr. MacFarlane for what at the time must've been big bucks, Mort had a brainstorm. Why couldn't he do the same thing Gray was doing? He’d been a maintenance man at the Morningside Cemetery for over ten years, and he was making peanuts. Digging graves, mostly with a backhoe, was his primary job, along with moving dead people from various locations to the funeral home or the cemetery.

During the movie, Gray had a great business going with his horse and carriage, and Mort wanted to give it a try himself. The problem was finding someone who wanted to buy cadavers like Dr. MacFarlane in the movie.

When the movie ended, Mort went to his computer and booted up. After an interminable time, he saw the Microsoft network finally fill the screen. He googled Craigslist and put “funeral arrangements” in the search engine. A list of undertakers and research facilities came up. One stood out from the rest with the catchy slogan, “A body is a terrible thing to waste.” He hit the link and was taken to a site with a large picture of a group of smiling doctors standing in front of an impressive medical building. They held a banner that read, ”Help Save A Child And Dispense With Enormous Funeral Costs. Donate Your Body To Medical Research.”

Wow. Maybe this would be the perfect place to sell a cadaver.

He read every word on the page. These doctors were soliciting elderly people who didn't have the money for a customary funeral to agree to donate their bodies to science upon their death.

Mort didn't know if these doctors would pay him for a body already embalmed or not, but what did he have to lose by asking. He called the number listed in the ad.

A female answered, “Edmunds Medical Research.”

“Hello,” Mort said. “I'd like to speak with someone about donating a body.”

“Just a second, let me transfer you to Mr. Sharlaton.”

Mort listened to the phone ringing, and on the third ring, he heard, “Mr. Sharlaton here. May I help you?”

“Uhh,” Mort said, and suddenly realized he couldn’t find the words to put a sentence together.

“Is someone on the line?” Sharlaton asked impatiently.

“Yes. I don't know how to begin exactly,” Mort stammered nervously.

“May I ask with whom I am speaking?”

“Well,” Mort hesitated. “Actually I would like to remain anonymous.”

“I'm sorry, sir, but I already know you’re calling from the Mort Spade listing.

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