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.
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?
Greta loved the ring she had fished out of the old abandoned well. But when she placed it on her finger, she began to feel someone urging her to kill. And then the murders began--just as that unknown someone started to become visible!
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.
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.
Night after night, Magret dreamed the same horrific nightmare: the ground split open ... the head of an infant emerged, it's eyes wide open, it's mouth filled with pointed, needle-sharp teeth. Then her daughter told her about the girl with funny teeth in the forest. Then the random killings began. Then Magret knew the terrifying truth.
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.
It was going on ten o'clock the next morning when Luther heard a car pull into the ranch yard. He opened the barn door and saw the SUV. The driver's and two back doors open and three people got out. Luther stopped in his tracks. Now who in the heck was this? Could it be his new southern cook had two children? Why hadn't he mentioned that little bit of news on the phone yesterday? Well, we'll see about this! He wasnt a happy man. Luther walked purposely toward the car that stood by the front porch. Just then a chilled wind whipped the ladys hat away. The womans hair, free of its confine, flew out like a blond flag streaming in the wind. She reached up grabbing at her hair as the same frisky wind opened her coat wide enough for Luther to catch a glimpse of this delightfully shapedlady. OhWow! Luthers anger was momentarily forgotten that she was here to interview for a job. Myohmy, some southern lady, was all he could think! As he walked toward her he swept up her hat that was tumbling along the ground. "Welcome to Rocking Horse, Maam, I'm Luther Strong-bow. he was rather proud of being able to overcome his surprise. Im Miss Golight, Sir. Oh, that velvety, southern voice. Lord, help me now! Ah, pleased to meet you. Wed better go in as the storm looks to be arriving earlier than expected." he said and offered the hat back to her. Luther opened the front door and caught a whiff of some light perfume as she passed by him causing his nose to quiver like a rabbit's. Whoa boy, thats not a good sign. Luther struggled to bring himself back to a business-like mode.
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Twenty years after she is locked up for the murder of her entire family, Pamela Armand returns home, determined to pay back Zenoa, the doll that really did the killing, for those lost years. Original.
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