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Issue #55 Special Vane Vampire Volume - the great John Byrne / Baron Blood.

Today's Tale-Satanist Posters and Other Nonsense

So I work in a comic store, normally its a great job. But sometimes, you have days where you wish you stayed in bed. Other times you see something so baffling, it makes you think you had.

Today's story is a combination of both.

This story happened around 18 months back, it was a quiet midweek day and I was finishing up my lunchbreak in the staff room upstairs. We had recently got a new stock of movie posters in and had spent the morning putting them in the rack and taking the old display ones down.

Several of the posters were of horror movies, like Friday the 13th, the Exorcist, Nightmare on Elm Street etc. This, apparently, was upsetting to one customer.

So as I'm heading down the stairs and out of the staff door back onto the shop floor I hear someone screaming as if it was Armageddon and someone else telling her firmly to leave and that she was not welcome back in the shop.

I round the corner and see what looks like a nice old granny screaming that we're a shop of Satanists and murderers...because we have posters of horror movie villains. She was ranting and screaming at one of my co-workers even as one of my bosses kept telling her to leave.

Luckily she seemed to get the hint and left without anything escalating beyond yelling and shouting. Still it was a strange experience for all involved.

The most important thing was no one got hurt. But its something we still bring up whenever we get stuff in related to horror.