The Creature In The Waxworks

"The Creature In The Waxworks" is a short story by Mark McLaughlin and Michael Sheehan, Jr.
==Synopsis==
A man living adjacent to a waxwork museum befriends an alien Mi-Go living surreptitiously in the building's basement. Despite developing a bond with the creature, the man is horrified when it transfers its brain into the body of the museum's owner and he chops up the Mi-Go's own body, forcing it to live out the remainder of its days as a regular human.
==Characters==
*Karl, a writer and former student at Miskatonic University.
*Zurymek, an ancient alien Mi-Go who has travelled the length and breadth of the solar system.
*Aloysius Pickman, a former art teacher and grandnephew of Richard Upton Pickman. Owner of the Pickman Waxworks.
==Publication History==
"The Creature In The Waxworks" was published in the collection Horrors & Abominations: 24 Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos in December 2018.
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