The Dump story
A city inspector tries to convince "Ugly" Dave Dvorchek to move out of his house in a dump. However, Dave refuses to leave. He instead tells the inspector a story about his past encounter with Otto, a muck creature that has fused with whatever material it consumed in the dump. Otto killed Dave's friend, but Dave bonded with it and made it his pet. As the disinterested inspector attempts again to get Dave to sign his eviction papers, Otto arrives and eats him alive, severing one of his hands in the process. Afterward, Dave plays fetch with Otto using the inspector's severed hand. Cast: Nolan North, André Sogliuzzo, Gary Cole Directed by: Javier Recio Gracia. Story by: Joe Lansdale.
6 total · 2 choice · 3 major · 1 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| blobform | choice | The highlight of the story is a "muck creature" that had, apparently, coalesced out of garbage at an inordinately filthy dump. It was amorphous. When a hole was blown through it with a shotgun, it healed rapidly in the way you'd expect from a chunk of goo. It took on the personality of creatures it ate. |
| facing being evicted from one's home | choice | "Ugly" Dave Dvorchek was hellbent on staying at his dump. A city inspector that came to evict him was eaten by Dave's pet muck monster. |
| attachment to one's land | major | "Ugly" Dave Dvorchek was hellbent on staying at his dump. A city inspector that came to evict him was eaten by Dave's pet muck monster. |
| human vs. monster | major | In the story within the story, Dave and his friend were menaced by a enigmatic, garbage blob monster that inhabited Dave's dump. |
| master and pet | major | Dave's pet dog had been eaten by the enigmatic, garbage monster inhabiting his dump. Dave bonded with the monster and came to treat it much as one might assume he had treated his old pet dog. He named it Otto, and played fetch with the monster using the inspector's severed hand. |
| pornography | minor | Dave and his friend perused a smutty magazine together. |