Short horror stories

The Doll Maker

I have moved to a new house, it was an unfamiliar area but there was familiar furniture. I looked around and then I saw something that I haven't seen before. I saw 2 life-sized dolls with frightening expressions, I felt this chill run down my spine and ran out into the backyard, where I played for the rest of the afternoon.

The next day my family and I went around greeting our neighbours, I wasn't really interested in it so I wandered off to a park near our house. I saw this old lady staring at me with cold eyes, a chill ran down my spine. When night time came I went to bed. Ever since I came here I've been having weird nightmares about a little boy saying "leave this place immediately" after that an old lady would come up to me and I would start to scream. I don't why, but I always do. Before I could find out what happened next I wake up, my body nearly always drenched with sweat.

I went for a walk in the park the next day and I was playing on the swings, before I knew it it became dark and it started raining. I rushed back home and called out for my mum, but no answer came. I called out for my dad, but no answer came. I was afraid. I heard a knocking at the door, thinking it was my parents I rushed to the door to open it but there I saw the old lady who lived near the park. She grabbed me by the throat. I couldn't breathe, I just slowly drifted into a deep, deep sleep.

The next morning when I woke up I couldn't move any of my muscles. I saw my parents staring down at me, I wanted to talk but my mouth wouldn't move. Then I heard them say "what's this doll doing here? Where's out daughter?" I'm right here mum, I'm not a doll. I was really confused and scared, I had no idea what was happening. All I remember was that the old lady strangled me and now I'm paralysed and my parents are calling me a doll. That's right! The old lady, she must know something. At that moment I heard a knock on the door at to my surprise it was the old lady. "Come here, come here!" I tried to say but my mouth wouldn't move. That's when I noticed that both my parents were lying still on the ground, I did not know what happened. Mum? Dad? They lied lifelessly on the ground. Fear struck me. The old lady finally spoke "I see a new doll to add to my collection." Doll? Collection? Had she gone mad? The old lady slowly picked me up, that's when I noticed that my hands were wooden and lifeless. I had become a doll.

I never really for how I turned into a doll, but one thing was for certain, the old lady was behind it. I guess I should really listen to my dreams and nightmares next time, if I have any.