Sawyer's innocence unravels before us as he weighs his options and plans and justifies his kills, trying to stay one step ahead of Manny. As the story unfolds the border between the supernatural and psychological blends. Believing “Manny” has morphed into a Frankenstein-style monster bent on offing its creators with no regard for who else gets hurt in the process, Sawyer decides that it’s his responsibility to kill his fellow pranksters before Manny can get to them, and thus lessen the collateral damage for their families. When one of the friends is killed, along with her entire family, in a freak accident shortly thereafter, Sawyer becomes convinced that the mannequin’s to blame. They all think it’s a funny prank-until Sawyer sees the mannequin walk out of the theater at the movie’s end. Sawyer Grimes is one of five bored teens who decide to pose a discarded store mannequin as though it’s a real patron in a movie theater in a suburb of Dallas, Tex. What would you do? This is the position Sawyer Grimes finds himself in at the start of Night of the Mannequins. Remember that Doctor Who episode "Rose" where Rose and the Doctor were chased by mannequins and how creepy that was? Now imagine if one of those mannequins was a murderer hell bent on killing you and your friends and their families. This was one wild and weird novella and I absolutely loved it.
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