Paranormal Nonsense by Steve Higgs

Author:Steve Higgs [Higgs, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781521508886
Amazon: 1521508887
Publisher: Independently published
Published: 2017-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

Mystery Men Bookshop. Monday September 27th 1124hrs

Frank Decaux turned up at my office on the morning the first advert for Blue Moon Paranormal investigations ran. He was near foaming at the mouth with excitement that there was another true believer with which he could converse. He had expected to find Buffy the Vampire Slayer or the Winchesters from Supernatural so was thoroughly deflated to discover I had no belief in the paranormal and simply sought to exploit the foolish nonsense my numerous clients clung to. He had bounced back quickly though, determining that he would be my inside source, my font of knowledge and that through my investigations I would prove to myself that there were occurrences that could not be explained. That werewolves, ghouls and other creatures were in fact living amongst us and not just fictional. Frank was mental. Safe mental though and weighed less than fifty kilograms so could not easily be dangerous without getting hold of some decent weaponry.

He owned and ran an occult bookshop called Mystery Men just around the corner from my office so I was at his door in under a minute. It was an odd little place which he had opened straight out of school in the mid-eighties. Upstairs from a florist in what would once have been a back bedroom of a terraced house he had dark fantasy and horror novels stacked floor to ceiling. On the walls leading up the stairs to the shop were posters from old horror movies or sci-fi movies and grainy pictures of beasts and creatures taken years ago, such as the Lock Ness monster and Big Foot. In the shop, the piles of books arranged on numerous shelves at first appeared to be completely haphazard but soon one discovered that rather than alphabetically by author or title they were arranged by creature and then by fiction and non-fiction. The more serious the book the closer it was to the counter. Inside the glass counter at the front were old leather-bound books that one should probably call grimoires.

There were a few limited-edition models around that had unbelievable price tags on them such as a model of Buffy the Vampire Slayer dispatching a pair of Vampires, one was caught mid-dust as the stake hung in the now exploded body and the other was reeling from a freshly delivered spin kick to the head. It was perhaps fifteen inches tall and the price tag was twelve thousand pounds I wanted to scoff at this but had once checked out Mystery Men on Companies House and found he was doing very well, so he knew what he was doing.

As I went up the stairs past the posters I wondered if Frank’s assistant Poison would be working today. Although I doubt Poison is her actual name, it is the one on her name badge and what she appears to be called by everyone. She wears goth make-up, or should that be Emo now? Regardless, that is the style she goes for, she has black nails and several piercings, hair which changes colour quite often.

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