SOURCES:
BURN, WITCH, BURN by A. Merritt (1933)
"The Doll" by Algernon Blackwood (1946)

DESCRIPTION: “...nothing but a fair, waxen faced doll that could be bought in any toy-shop for one shilling and sixpence...Its face was pallid, white, expressionless, its flaxen hair was dirty, its tiny ill-shaped hands and fingers lay motionless by its side, its mouth was closed, though somehow grinning, no teeth visible, its eyelashes ridiculously like a worn tooth brush, its entire presentment in its flimsy skirt, contemptible, harmless, even ugly...The doll came at him. The hinges of its diminutive broken arms and its legs emitted a thin, creaking sound as it came darting—the syllables madame Jodzka had already heard...’buth laga’.” (“The Doll” by Algernon Blackwood)

NOTES: Killer dolls can either be a vessel through which a sorcerer works or they can be inanimate things that have become animate.

HISTORY: Todd Browning filmed Lionel Barrymore as an evil witch in Devil Doll (1936), based on the A. Merritt novel, Burn, Witch, Burn (1933). Night Gallery did an episode based on the story as did Richard Matheson in Trilogy of Terror where a Zuni doll terrorizes Karen Black. The killer ventriloquist's dummy is a related theme.

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