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You open your eyes and find yourself standing in a comic store. The shelves around you are lined with classic comic books. Amazingly enough, a few of them are even signed. There are only a few lights on in the store and they create a steady, dim orange glow. Several of the shelves are stacked with comic books and heavy boxes, some of which have toppled over creating a small pile of old comics beneath them. To the left, you can see the checkout counter, the glow of the cash register illuminating the floor behind the counter, which is cluttered with magazines, toys and various action figures. You turn to the right, and see the entrance to the back storeroom. The room is dark and silent, except for the sound of the shelves falling over when you opened the door. You begin to wonder if opening the door was such a good idea after all, but then your eyes adjust and you see what looks like a crowded city street.
You walk over to the storeroom and look out the open door. The scene outside looks like an old-fashioned downtown street. Two-story buildings surround you, but at least from this perspective, they are in disrepair. The buildings are dirty, the windows are broken, and torn-up garbage floats down some of the streets. You wonder if there is an old comic book that features a version of this street.
A light breeze comes out of nowhere, blows over you and blows another box of comics over to the floor. You turn to scoop the comics back into their place, and right when you do, a dark shadow darts around in front of the light that illuminates the storefront. You stop and listen. There is a sudden sound of tearing paper. You walk into the store room and go to the comic box that was knocked over. The comic book that had been on the top of the pile lies on the floor, slashed in two with a clear set of jagged marks across it.
Suddenly, there is a surprised voice in front of you. You turn, filled with fear, and find another eager fan in the store room who wants to talk to you about this mysterious comic book. You welcome your new customer, try not to stare at the almost glowing green skin of her alien features and wave her towards the store, saying you will find her a copy of the comic book.
You feel your stomach lighten up as the news of this mystery comic spreads to other customers, causing them to pick up copies of the comic book and show them to you. You watch as one customer after another takes and reads the comic book. Some have their eyes wide open in surprise, others look just as confused as you did. Then, there are a few people that try to pick up the comic book and when they do, they drop it, pass out or collapse to the floor, an expression of total shock on their faces. You begin to notice that they all have the same expression, and then you realize what they are doing. Everyone that reads the comic book is dying, and at the same time they reenact their own death in the comic book, just before they are transported back to the store. You take note of the pages as people collapse, and as you look them over, you can see how they are all symbolic of these peoples tragic events in their lives.
Slowly, this information reaches a few other customers, and alarms sound in the store. Customers begin to scream, a shelf falls over, and there is a loud, loud crash something terrible. You run out back and find a chaotic scene in the store. The floor is covered with bodies and broken comic books. There are boxes, comic books, and a bloodied man lying motionless on the floor. Above you, a large shelf has fallen to the ground, causing broken comic books and jagged, broken edges to lash sparks across the floor and ceiling.
You take a step closer to the apparent source of the trouble, eying the large shelf. You are confident that this is not a good situation, and it is far more dangerous than you thought. You begin to look around and see the store room ransacked and comic books smashed on the floor. This is exactly the scene that you saw in the book earlier. You look around once more and realize that the only comics that remain standing are the ones that you stand on a small, unassuming set of shelves.
Suddenly, the shelf begins to shake violently. You try in vain to keep it from shaking, but in the end, you are no match for it. A sound begins to fill the store room, a frightening rattling and a slow, repeated slamming of the shelf. You move away from the shelf as it starts to tilt to the side and falls to the floor and continues to bang down one by one.
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