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You know the place. It was a vacant lot when you went by this time yesterday. It'll probably be a vacant lot again this time tomorrow. But right now, there's a shop there that looks like it came out of Charles Dickens -- or maybe H.P. Lovecraft. And if you go inside, you'll find a quirky old shopkeeper who has any number of potentially magical -- and potentially inconvenient -- artifacts available for sale. Cheap. Today only. Just for you. Just don't expect a liberal returns policy. Compare with:

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  • You know the place. It was a vacant lot when you went by this time yesterday. It'll probably be a vacant lot again this time tomorrow. But right now, there's a shop there that looks like it came out of Charles Dickens -- or maybe H.P. Lovecraft. And if you go inside, you'll find a quirky old shopkeeper who has any number of potentially magical -- and potentially inconvenient -- artifacts available for sale. Cheap. Today only. Just for you. Just don't expect a liberal returns policy. Compare with:
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  • You know the place. It was a vacant lot when you went by this time yesterday. It'll probably be a vacant lot again this time tomorrow. But right now, there's a shop there that looks like it came out of Charles Dickens -- or maybe H.P. Lovecraft. And if you go inside, you'll find a quirky old shopkeeper who has any number of potentially magical -- and potentially inconvenient -- artifacts available for sale. Cheap. Today only. Just for you. Just don't expect a liberal returns policy. Originally a literary device from the surge of weird fantasy writing in the 1920s and earlier -- H.G. Wells used it in The Crystal Egg (1897) and The Magic Shop (1903) -- The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday still turns up occasionally. Nowadays, it's often a website. Frequently an element of the modern Creepypasta. Compare with: * Bazaar of the Bizarre: Another place to get your esoteric shopping done. * Big Store: Mundane cousin of the Little Shop; a facade of a store set up to trick somebody. * Grail in the Garbage * Inn Between the Worlds: Another impossible place that's almost always stumbled across rather than deliberately sought out, but at Inns the payoff for visitors is usually good company and good stories rather than material trinkets. * Recurring Traveller * Traveling Landmass * Vanishing Village Examples of The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday include:
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