The Paper Effigy Shop

Have you heard of the uncanny valley effect? The more something looks like a human without actually being one, the more frightening it is.

My name is Lin Yan. By day, I’m a college student. By night, I work at a shop that makes paper offerings for the dead. Paper horses, paper mansions, paper phones... Whatever you can think of, we’ve got it. But what we have most of are paper figures.

Wait. Why are they turning to look at me?