Some months ago a type case (a wooden tray divided into sections to hold the various metal letters of a typeface used for printing) was sold in an auction. According to legend, the typeface was used to print an occult book.
Possibilities
1 The type case was sold to a collector, and one day the collector decides to print a book (a short treatise on astronomy) using the typeface and an old printing press.
Everything is normal until the book is finished. Then a buzzing is heard in the whole house and the collector (and any guests) start suffering nightmares...
The typeface is evil...
2 A printer bought the case to publish profane books. As soon as the first page is printed the bad luck begins.
First, the printer loses two fingers to the printing machine, Then his assistant injures himself. And then the office cat dies...
Eventually the printer is found dead, having committed suicide by putting his head into the printing press.
3 A poet buys the type case to print his works at home. He publishes a limited collection of his poems and sells them through libraries and exhibitions.
Although his poems are about spring, summer and love, readers of the collection experience depression, hate and fear. They also suffer from an inordinate number of paper cuts - for some reason the little book of poetry inflicts paper cuts. It is as if it needs feeding...
Possibilities
1 The type case was sold to a collector, and one day the collector decides to print a book (a short treatise on astronomy) using the typeface and an old printing press.
Everything is normal until the book is finished. Then a buzzing is heard in the whole house and the collector (and any guests) start suffering nightmares...
The typeface is evil...
2 A printer bought the case to publish profane books. As soon as the first page is printed the bad luck begins.
First, the printer loses two fingers to the printing machine, Then his assistant injures himself. And then the office cat dies...
Eventually the printer is found dead, having committed suicide by putting his head into the printing press.
3 A poet buys the type case to print his works at home. He publishes a limited collection of his poems and sells them through libraries and exhibitions.
Although his poems are about spring, summer and love, readers of the collection experience depression, hate and fear. They also suffer from an inordinate number of paper cuts - for some reason the little book of poetry inflicts paper cuts. It is as if it needs feeding...
© Jochen Koltermann
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