Lifelike puppets

The room was much bigger than Mary thought it would be; about 50ft. cube in size. The staircase comes out from the center of this large room, a door in front of her as she reaches the landing, no doubt leading to the rafters of the stage. A light switch is barely visible on that side of the wall of the dark room. Mary walks over to switch it on. The florescent bulbs on the ceiling boom to life with nary a delay nor flicker. Mary turns around to observe the rest of the room, only to back against the wall in shock at what she sees.

Along the other three walls are various women hanging limply on strings on their limbs at different elevations. Such a macabre sight was enough to make Mary almost scream in fright. There has to be at least 100 of them, all of them were in various costumes, faces holding a myriad of expressions between them all. A whole assortment of races, but they all bordered on the fetishistic overall; curvy and pretty. Mary was now visibly shaking at this, until she noticed the strings proper. they were thick enough to be noticed as such, as if to tell anyone that these were actually just puppets. Mary traveled her vision along to where one of the doll's strings would meet flesh, but only saw a seamless point in which the string entered. Mary focuses further, and sees that the people are not as human as she thought, just noticing the subtle joint seams that would be seen on a doll on their exposed appendages. Mary calms down as she finally understands that these are just puppets. Quite lifelike puppets, but puppets nonetheless.

They seem really interesting, are these the reason for her not coming up here? She wanders over to one of them to inspect. she walks over to the one that looks like a nurse, looking it over. It was dressed very lewdly; a latex tiny-skirted uniform compressing its overly large bosom and wide hips, black stockings with visible garters, high spike heels, and a nurse cap on its long curly red hair. The expression molded on the puppets face is that of a sultry, heavily-makeuped face in the halfway point of blowing a kiss.

Mary now thinks it may be outlawed to come up here is because of how perverted these things were. every one of these puppets seem to be some kind of form of fetish. Mary then considers that they must be the original owner's, but these things are too clean, like each one has been used recently...

As she reaches over to the nurse to examine it further out of curiosity, Mary suddenly feels a chill for some reason...She turns around to see if there was anything there, but it was nothing but the dolls on the far wall. Did they just change positions, or was that just her imagination?