Mary Catelli's Erraticly Updated and Exceedingly Ill-Organized Journal

In the more horror-ish such stories, pretending that it's a normal (albeit little-known and/or seldom open) shop could be part of the proprietor's strategy for luring potential victims. At least, this appears likely to be the motive behind the set-up in the upcoming book "The Motion of Puppets," by Keith Donohue, which I saw a bound galley of at work. This is about a mysterious never-open toy shop in Quebec that heroine Kay Harper is attracted to because of a puppet in the window. When the shop conveniently turns out to be open one night when she's hurrying home, fearing that she's being followed by a stalker, she takes refuge inside--and apparently vanishes off the face of the Earth.