About the book: year / Ten ridiculously stereotypical victims (yuppie, housewife, retiree, athlete, devout woman, cowboy, student, gamer, goth and white gangsta from the suburbs) one day find themselves unable to leave the mall. Nothing is holding them back. The doors are not locked. Other customers are free to come and go as they please. But for some inexplicable reason, these ten people can't tear themselves away from their shopping miasma. The shopping center closes, but they don't leave. Days pass and they are still there, eating in the food court and sleeping in the bedrooms of the department store. Then they start dying, one by one, at the hands of a mysterious killer, and they still can't get out. Carlton Mellick III's The Menstruating Mall is both a modernization of Luis Buñuel's The Exterminating Angel and a parody of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians".