Following her husband's long illness ending in death, Elsea and her three children were left with no home and very little money. Her parents offered them a place to live. An old house outside of town that had been owned by their family for more than three generations. The house had been listed for sale for some time, with no takers. They happily moved in and began to enjoy their newfound security. Elsea quickly made friends with bearded, handsome neighbor Corey, but she felt that it was too soon for a relationship. Corey began encouraging Elsea to take up writing. Stephanie began helping with household chores, while Tommy tended to roam outdoors. Meanwhile, five year old Dorrie, the quiet one of the bunch, began spending much of her time in the attic, playing with old dolls and toys that she found there. She grew attached to one doll in particular, with a smooth porcelain-like face just like a baby; and a mouth with a tiny hole so she could eat and breathe. But the doll had only one beaded glass eye--and it gleamed with mischief and evil. Dorrie really did not understand this talk of life and death, and could not understand at all why her Daddy was not coming home. Also, she noticed that sharing her breath with the doll, rubbing and talking to it, seemed to bring it alive. It certainly could move about on its own, and while that sometimes frightened her, she loved the little doll. She began working with other toys so they could move too. Tommy was the one that began noticing thumps in the attic and other noises in the night. He tried to explain to both his mother and sister Stephanie, but they did not believe him. He did not share what he knew with Corey, because he did not want to be seen as fearful of small things. So, he became the only one responsible for helping Dorrie deal with her creations. If only Dorrie could have read her sweet little doll's thoughts . . . she would have run from the attic as fast as she could. For you see ... her doll seemed to have killing in mind ...
Five-year old Jessica lives with her father, mother, and fourteen-year old half-brother Robert. Half-sister Brenda, twenty-two, has left home to try to make a living as an artist. Jessica's father Paul is very busy with work, and hardly interacts with her. Robert spends his days in his room listening to music. So when her mother Diane suddenly leaves to pursue a career in New Orleans, Jessica is devastated and lonely. It is no surprise that she seeks comfort elsewhere. Upon discovering a set of ancient dolls in a nearby abandoned mansion, she quickly forms a strong attachment and prefers to spend her days in their company. Mrs. Archer, who has been the family housekeeper for years, becomes concerned about how Jessica keeps disappearing for hours on end. She follows Jessica one day and learns part of what has been going on. Mrs. Archer has strong feelings about the danger of "hants, spooks, and ghosts", and asks Jessica to never go to the old mansion again. After Jessica has a horrible dream and screams during the night, she tells her father about the spooks and ghosts that Mrs. Archer had mentioned, whereupon he immediately fires the housekeeper. Realizing that he cannot spend time with Jessica, Paul recruits daughter Brenda to come home for the summer. Meanwhile, Jessica continues to spend time with the only friends she knows. Brenda arrives to find that Mrs. Archer has gone missing, and that Jessica's nightmares are becoming worse each night. In addition, when Diane returns to pick up Jessica and take her with her to the city, she has a terrible wreck close to the house. Robert observes some unusual circumstances related to Diane's return, and decides to investigate on his own. No one in the family has any real inkling of the real depth of the mystery . . .
Seven-year-old Ellen was sure it was Aladdin's lamp that she found at the local garage sale. But she soon discovered her new treasure was capable of unspeakable evil. The neighbors called Ellen a child killer, a monster. But the little girl hadn't done anything--except rub the lamp to make the genie appear.
Heather was young and beautiful, but she had ongoing man trouble and had trouble accepting her daughters Ellie and Becky. When she found a new husband, the option of sending the girls to live with their Aunt Aster was irresistible. As a parting gift, she gave the girls a beautiful doll . . . Zenoa. Ellie soon took out some of her frustrations on the doll, and it was terribly defaced. Just a few days later a terrible tragedy occurred. Aster and Ellie were killed with an ice pick, and six year-old Becky, the only survivor, was assumed to be the killer. A hundred years later, Gramma Virginia bought the doll in an antique store, had it restored, and gifted it to granddaughter Kit, on her ninth birthday. Kit was almost immediately fearful of the doll, and confided her fears to her older sister Pam. Some of what she said caused Pam to believe that Kit was having mental problems. However, in the middle of one night when Kit had awakened her, Pam decided to put the doll into the attic. While up there, she lost her balance and hit her head. Upon awakening the next morning, she discovered that all of her family had been killed. Since there was no evidence of anyone else in the house, she was convicted of murder and sentenced to thirty years in prison. Twenty-four years later Pam was released from prison and returned to the house where the murders had occurred. Her sister Beth had never gone in the house, and had left everything exactly as it had been. Pam had a mission in mind, but she was diverted from it when she learned that her nephew Justin was about to be married--to a young lady named Zenoa! Was this a coincidence? Pam tried to communicate her fears to other family members, but she constantly faced doubts and questions about her own sanity.
It still seemed incredible that she was the missing grand-daughter of an eccentric millionaire who recently passed away. But from the moment that she entered this strange house, Jo Anne began to discover that she had been willed a legacy of evil.
Any little girl would love to hug a doll with tiny, delicate hands, cunningly wrought features, and a hand-stitched gown. After being hidden away for years, a doll will be taken out and carefully placed in a child's bed so that it might once again claim its victims in the darkest hours of the night.
When levelling to build a new mall, a sycamore tree was bulldozed right before dark. The dozer crew saw several bodies lying under the roots of the tree. The boss left to fetch the police, leaving Carl as the only witness as the bodies transformed to beautiful people that crawled out of the hole and simply walked away. Although ridiculed for his story, Carl finally convinced one other person to question the terrible something that had been unleashed. The pair quietly investigated, and found that several strange occurrences began that night. Most importantly, the newly-built church Aeternita, which invited their neighbors to attend nightly ceremonies. Those attending rapidly joined, then quickly yielded all will to the church. But, the church members were strange. They were all young and beautiful, and seemed to be mysteriously acquiring new family members until they had "perfect families". The church promised eternal life, but at what cost?
After her parents passed away, Tara sought to escape the inevitable marriage to the wealthy Albert if she stayed in town. After traveling to San Francisco with almost no money, during a heavy rain she found shelter with a small group of people that seemed to be penniless and without resources. She learned that young Amy, one of this "family", was pregnant and needing help. After the men returned from an evening outing, they expressed an urgent desire to leave. Mysteriously, they had a car and money. The journey to Louisiana, where the family of one of the men owned an abandoned house, began immediately. Arriving, they soon learn that the former tenant had recently been dead inside the house. Tara and Amy take a room that includes a disturbing picture above the fireplace-a painting that is signed with the name "Samael". After learning that a stairway to the third floor had been completely sealed, they decide to open it. This was not a wise decision ... Can Tara continue to protect Amy and the baby? Scott Yates, the real estate agent who has fallen in love with Tara, stands ready to assist.
Gladys Swartz was a plain girl boiling with suppressed desire. In a book on the occult, she read of a bodily possession and conceived a devilish plan. She brought about her own death by accident, then, wandering the earth as a restless spirit, she attacked and conquered the body of the lovely Peri Lee. After a desperate battle, she drove the young girl's soul down into the depths of her psyche. Then she led the life of a lovely wanton, but, more and more she came to realize that she had committed a terrible crime. When the fiancé of the lovely young girl began to suspect that all was not well, a fight to the finish was fought in the dark halls of a haunted mind.
For Amy and Jody, living with the carnival for the summer was great fun--until Jody stepped into the House of Illusions. It was there that she saw the clowns, with their large red noses, floppy shoes--and deadly grins. A hellish nightmare was about to begin. For these clowns craved terrified screams--not gleeful laughter--and were hungry for death! Original.
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