![]() ![]() The protagonist startled opens the door letting in the old proprietor, Vizniak. The puppet moves off in that direction just as the proprietor who has been sleeping above raps his knuckles on the front door of the shop. Just as protagonist is about to lose his mind and do something rash, the puppet turns its head toward the back of the store where a curtain covers a small store room. The puppet floats before him with its dead eyes hollowed out of some hellish mind, bound to strings that vanish in a blur above it in the ceiling where some invisible puppeteer of the abyss hides, withdrawn in his dark object-hood, while the clown puppet like some sensuous artifact of wood and string dances on the hollow thoughts of a mad god. This intrusion surprises him because he had never thought that anyone else would become a part of the visitation. ![]() The protagonist is working in a medicine shop one night when the clown suddenly appears handing him a small book, a passport - the passport of his boss, Ivan Vizniak. ![]() ![]() None of these strange encounters is every very revealing, instead they seem to be both banal and utterly absurd in their marked propensity to undermine any meaning whatsoever. In such a world as this, we can wonder what horrors are in store, but we might not need to look too far for my favorite human-loathing author Ligotti shows us a universe that is dysphoric and nihilistic, one that is fascinatingly revealed in the story of The Clown Puppet, where the protagonist receives certain visitations from a puppet clown at different junctures in his life. ![]()
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