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CREEPY DOLLS AND OTHER HAUNTED TOYS

No such thing as an uncreepy doll

The thing about dolls is that even the ones that aren’t trying to kill you or mind-control you into becoming a killer yourself have a baseline creepiness built into their design. Whoever thought that an appropriate plaything for a child would be something shaped like a human, but as vacant-eyed and stiff-limbed as a corpse was not taking into account the visuals on that. It’s bad enough that giving the least powerful member of a family an even smaller human to manipulate often leads to the most chilling episodes of acting-out (see “creepy children”), but add to that the fact that nature abhors a vacuum and the soul-sized cranny in your average doll is the perfect starter home for an evil entity just beginning its career in possession, and it becomes a matter of “when,” not “if” you are murdered by tiny porcelain hands.

Here is a list of books that should serve as cautionary tales against willingly bringing these tiny terrors into your homes. I’ve included a few books for younger readers this time out, because it’s never too early to be informed. They’re not all horror books featuring overtly evil dolls, but that’s how they get you and it’s best to be prepared and suspicious of all dolls, puppets, teddy bears and most of all—ventriloquist dummies.

Keeper of the Children

The Doll Collection

The House of Small Shadows


The Bear Who Wouldn't Leave


Creepy-Ass Dolls


Among Prey


Toy Cemetery


Satan's Toybox: Demonic Dolls


Cuckoo Song


Magic


Making Puppets Come Alive


Haunted Dolls: Creepy True Stories Of The Worlds Most Evil Haunted Dolls


Puppet Skin


The Secret Life of Puppets


The Living Evil


Toys in the Attic


The Motion of Puppets


Harold the Haunted Doll: The Terrifying, True Story of the World's Most Sinister Doll


Ghost Child


Dolly


Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life


You'll Never Know, Dear


Rockinghorse


Toys in the Basement


Diary of a Creepy-Ass Doll


The Toymaker




Somebody Come And Play


Travelers




The Surrogate


Ticktock


The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death


The Lonely Doll


Everything That Creeps


Doll Bones


The Haunted Dolls: An Anthology


Annabelle


Childish Things


Tales of the Sisters Kane Book


Baby Dolly


The Doll


The Voice Of The Clown


Pinocchio


The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Ghost Stories


An Eye for an Eye: The Doll


Ghost Doll


Victoria


Althea


Playmates


Demonic Dolls: True Tales of Terrible Toys


Night Stone


Stitch


Mama


Jack-in-the-Box


The Dollkeeper


Child's Play 3


Just Like Mother




The Doll’s Ghost


Nettle & Bone


Night of the Mannequins


Behind the Attic Wall



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