How to Sell a Haunted House

“A puppet is a device for driving the personality out of the body and allowing a spirit to take control,” Clark said. “Puppets have no freedom, but they give the puppeteer freedom. They have no life, but they live forever.”

Put one on and your posture changes, your voice alters, and you can feel what it wants, you can feel what it’s scared of, you know what it needs. You don’t wear the puppet. The puppet wears you.

“A puppet is a possession that possesses the possessor.”

don’t you feel the vibes

the house doesn’t feel empty

i feel like we’re doing something wrong

statistically, and there’s a lot of variance in these numbers, but in general, from a strictly scientific point of view, everything turns out okay an improbable number of times.

wishing harder than she’d ever wished before that for just sixty seconds someone would hold her, but no one holds moms.

“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.

“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse. “When you are Real, you don’t mind being hurt.”

Everyone realizes that at some point, right? It’s part of growing up. You realize you’re not going to be the star of the show. You realize you’re going to be lucky to scrape by and pay the rent. That’s when a lot of people go to med school. Or get married. Or decide that hitting the bong first thing in the morning sounds like a great idea.

. I read about Little Angel’s Wild Night of the Witches, and Handspan Theatre, and Charles Ludlam’s The Ventriloquist’s Wife, and Javanese holy shadow puppet plays, and how puppet shows used t

Mark was cleaner but he looked like exactly the type of guy who’d go to a Waffle House at three in the morning after shooting a haunted puppet.