![]() I’ve seen those figures dressed and undressed. I’d like to be quite sure about you, and I’d like you to be quite sure of yourself. Of all, it’s no small ordeal that you’re proposing to undertake. “Get your story printed in the Morning Echo, and there will be a five-pound note waiting for you here when you care to come and call for it. “I shall make it gruesome, of course, gruesome, with just a saving touch of humor.” The other nodded and offered Hewson his cigarette case. Would be my position? But your being a journalist somewhat alters the case.” If I allowed it, and some young idiot lost his senses, what We have nothing to gain and something to lose by letting people spend the night in our Murderers’ Den. “In fact we refuse it to different people-mostly young bloods who have tried to make bets - about three times a week. “There is nothing new in your request,” he said. He looked what he was, a man gifted somewhat above the ordinary, who was a failure through his lack of self-assertion. He was a small, spare, pale man, with lank, errant brown hair, and though he spoke plausibly and even forcibly, he had the defensive and somewhat furtive air of a man who was used to rebuffs. His clothes, which had been good when new and which were still carefully brushed and pressed, were beginning to show signs of their owner’s losing battle with the world. He wore his clothes well and contrived to look extremely smart without appearing overdressed. The manager was a youngish man, stout, blond and of medium height. ![]() While the uniformed attendants of Marriner’s Waxworks were ushering the last stragglers through the great glass-paneled double doors, the manager sat in his office interviewing Raymond Hewson. The Waxwork is a scary short story by AM Burrage about a journalist who spends the night in a wax museum that contains dummies and mannequins of infamous murderers and serial killers that seem almost alive.
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