"Up the stairs while Mitch keeps them busy," said Mike Mercury.

"But you guys are puppets," said Zoc.

"So, what's your point?"

"Who's pulling your strings?" demanded Steve Brown.

"Look, we don't have time for this — you remember the villain who kept screwing us up in the show?"

"Yeah, Zarin — right?"

"Right," said Mike Mercury. "Well, we found out he's behind the Shudderites. He put a supermarionation curse on us back in the 1960s. Anderson was his disciple. Turned us into these annoying puppets. Been looking for him ever since. Found out he snagged some goop named Zombos, and was planning on sacrificing him on Halloween, here in this castle. We're going to tackle his ass and get this curse lifted."

"You mean--" began Zoc.

"Yup. Every puppet in every Anderson's series was once human." said Mercury.

"Even those babes in Captain Scarlet?" asked Steve Brown.

"Yup."

"God, I hope they show up, too." Steve Brown was euphoric.

"What took you so long to find him?" asked Glenor.

"We were in limbo all this time. The release of the show on DVD, available through Amazon.com, brought life back to us."

"Amazing. But you're still in black and white," said Glenor.

"Hey, sales weren't that good," said little Jimmy.

"Captain Scarlet was in color, though," said Steve Brown, still in euphoria. He seemed to be puckering his lips as if he were kissing someone.

"We better go," said Jimmy. Mitch the monkey was hitting Jason with his mask, but Leatherface had found the monkey's weakness. His strings. One by one he was cutting them with his chainsaw. Their brief respite was soon to end.

They raced up the stairs, and into a hallway. "Which door gets us out of here?" asked Jimmy. They could hear the buzz of the chainsaw coming up the stairs.

Zoc pulled the nearest door open. They ran into a dark room. Steve Brown turned on his pocket flashlight, and flashed it around the room. They were momentarily startled by what they found. Dracula, the Wolf Man, and the Frankenstein monster glared at them from the darkness.

"Great, more monsters!" cried Glenor.

"Wait a minute," said Zoc. "That's the Lugosi Dracula, and it's Chaney's Wolf Man, and, yes, the Frankenstein monster is the Karloff version."

"I really liked Glenn Strange as the monster," said Steve Brown. Mike Mercury nodded his head in agreement. "More brute terror, less pathos."

"They are robots, too." said Zoc. "What is this place?"

"Remember that film, Westworld?" said Steve Brown. "Maybe this is the horrorworld version, and just like in the film, the robots went berserk?"

"With all that nihilistic, grisly torture and death cinema of the helpless-styled horror these days, I don't wonder," said Zoc. "Perhaps the incessant need for sequels burned out their quality-control circuits."