Creepy Tales 24

Four Stories of Bargains That Should Never Have Been MadeA washed-up horror novelist walks into a dead mall for a book signing nobody attends-and discovers the mall isn't empty. It's been waiting. The coven that runs it needs one more sacrifice, and he has until dawn to write his way out. A traveling salesman takes the wrong exit and checks into a desert motel where the mirrors don't show your reflection-at least, not the reflection you walked in with. The night clerk has been expecting him. A disgraced archaeologist pours his obsession into a wooden mask from a flea market, certain it's the last relic of a blood cult that never existed. The mask begins to speak. It wants offerings. And a voice actress with multiple personalities is hired to read an ancient book in a recording booth, opening something that slips through-only to discover her fractured mind might be the one cage it can't escape.Four stories. Four invitations. Four hungers that can't feed until someone says yes.Someone always says yes.