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If, as a parent, you have ever stepped barefoot on a Lego in the middle of the night and thought, “That’s it! No more toys!”, consider Augury children as your cautionary tale. An esteemed surgeon in his native Finland, Trocar Augury, his wife Harbinger and their two lovely little girls, Portent and Omen emigrated to the U.S. and settled in the Midwest. Perhaps the locals found his taxidermy hobby odd, but whatever the reason, Trocar was unable to find work as a physician in the New World. Desperate, he set up the family home as a funeral parlor and put his skills for both surgery and taxidermy to good use on the towns’ citizens who had met their final ends. Deeply embittered by his turn in fortune, he forbade any signs of cheer in the ...