SOURCES: "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: Blackwood's doll is an actual toy that has been made evil unlike A. Merritt's killer dolls.

HISTORY: Night Gallery did an episode based on the Blackwood story. The killer ventriloquist's dummy is a related theme.