The Music Box

"The Music Box" is a short story by J.P. Leck and is the twelfth installment (fifth, chronologically) in his Endless Elsewhere multimedia meta-narrative. It is the second Endless Elsewhere short story. It was released for Amazon Kindle on October 29, 2016.

Synopsis
A crippled young man happens upon a stranger in the cemetery testing a strange device with even stranger consequences.

Plot Summary
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Characters

 * The Collector - a collector of rare and exotic tales from the Circle City area; he provides the foreword and afterword for this tale.
 * Oliver Dynes - a young man who, upon suffering a tragic accident limiting his mobility, is made subject to a deadly experiment
 * Dr. Frederick Hardesty - a German scientist during WWII who applies his genius to a paranormal. He is the inventor of the titular Music Box, a machine that reanimates the dead.

Locations

 * Circle City Cemetery - an expansive cemetery located in Circle City, IN. It serves as the final resting place for Oliver Dynes' unnamed father as well as the test site for Dr. Hardesty's experiments.

Artifacts

 * The Music Box - an invention of Dr. Hardesty's, receiving its trial run in this story. It is discovered to have the ability to reanimate corpses.  By the end of the story, it is in Oliver Dynes' possession.

Links

 * "The Music Box" on Amazon
 * "The Music Box" on Goodreads