HUMOR

Going Out of Business Sale: Holly Horror’s Cursed Antique Shop

Everything must go, back to the depths (or basements) from which it came

Heather Talty
Greener Pastures Magazine
3 min readJan 20, 2023

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Photo by Aimee Vogelsang on Unsplash

A lifelike statue of a hand that could be a Hand of Glory or just a replica of Thing from the Addams Family. We’re all into that again, right? It has all kinds of fun features, like twitching when you haven’t touched it, making rude gestures, and closing in a foreboding way whenever you make a poorly thought out wish. Don’t do something like wish for a shorter flight without specifying that you don’t want the plane to crash on an island mysteriously inhabited by polar bears, and you should be fine.

So many baseball cards.

All kinds of books in very good to extremely worn condition, including one Book of Questionable Spells unearthed from an ancient burial mound with a very explicit curse engraved into the entrance.

Lamps shaped like women’s legs. I find them tacky, but I guess people like them.

Dolls, dolls, dolls! Dolls with beady eyes, eerily vacant expressions, outfits like sailor suits that make them look adorable and not creepy at all. Dolls with missing eyes, heads that rotate all the way around, or even sometimes fangs. Dolls that talk galore: some of them are overtly…

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Heather Talty
Greener Pastures Magazine

Heather Talty is a writer, editor, and dog person. She writes short humor and fiction.