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It has been six years since Ghost Box III came out….
After years of demand, the Ghost Box is back! Patton Oswalt’s much-beloved spooky-story anthology returns for a fourth edition, with the same trademark production details—magnetized box lid, anyone?—that Ghost Box fans have come to expect.
As always, working with Patton on Ghost Box IV was a dream, and we can’t wait to show you the nightmares that he’s wrangled and stuffed into the box this time around.
This story is set in a Thai massage parlor. The main character is not Thai, but she has worked there long enough that the rest of the Thai employees consider her one of them.
She likes the job–Thai massage uses more than your hands–you walk on the customer and there are bars around the room for them to hold on to as they dig their heels in (all if the customer wants of course). But every Tuesday, Mr Smeed comes in. He’s a white slug, the kind of guy who asked if they massaged “to completion.”
She hates this man and today, after a lengthy massage she has had enough.
The story is very short and the ending comes very fast. It’s the kind of ending you have to read twice to make sure you understood what happened. I also really enjoyed the reactions to what happened.
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