The Puppeteer

Once upon a time there was a puppeteer who toured across the country with only moderate success. He could just about keep himself afloat until one day he came across a speaking wooden puppet. He managed to persuade the puppet to tour with him and thus became incredibly famous. One morning the puppeteer awoke to find that the wooden puppet and all his income had vanished. The now desperate puppeteer tried to carve a new talking marionette but all efforts were in vain. This was the moment when he came up with a gruesome plan – to make his living puppet from human body parts instead of dead wood. He settled in Berlin, the location of his latest show, to commence the search for suitable victims. The first audience which entered his theatre was never to be seen again...