Sooty's Spooks

-light of the windows later in the evening, until around midnight, when the apartment lights go off. It must be shut off and recharged then, right? Not sleeping, at least. After all, dead bones can't just keep walking all on their own... Right?

- who is affectionately called Elizabeth by the shop owner, ever shut down to recharge, nor are there any apparent battery openings on her. In fact, she can be seen relaxing in the garden at night, reading by the light of jack-o'-lanterns, or passing the-

-Lovecraft and Poe, and the younger children squeal with a mixture of fright and happiness when they get to pet her pet spider, Miss Fluffy, a rather large and fat and fuzzy black spider. In fact, many customers haven't seen the skeleton-

-talks and acts like a young Victorian English-accented woman, who will do group readings to the blind or sight impaired or anyone willing to listen, of any book there, somehow, despite having no eyes themselves. Teenagers love her readings of-

I like to imagine Sooty's Books redecorates as Sooty's Spooks every October, and somehow, as if magically, restocks all books to be horror, scifi, or fantasy. Special readings are done by a skeleton "animatronic", who parents still aren't sure how-