From the Depths of My Nightmares

There was a reason I stayed away from dolls when I was growing up. I mean, they seriously freaked my shit out. I can’t stand the little dead fish eyes that seem to follow me everywhere I go. I can’t stand the frozen expressions on their little baby faces. When I was a kid, I had to stay at an aunt’s house because my mom had gone into labor. Well, she just happened to have a huge doll collection. Hundreds and hundreds of these freaky little child-bride looking things with their dead fish eyes just staring down at me in the dark. There was a shelf on the headboard of the bed I was laying on and during the night, one must have fallen off because when I woke up in the middle of the night, this little blond thing wearing a veil and a wedding gown was sitting on my chest with a placid, perpetually pleasant look on its face. I screamed my head off and brought the whole house into the bedroom to check on my cowardly six year old ass. I ended up sleeping in my aunt’s bedroom and peed in the bed. She was not happy.

Anyway, enough about my issues. This isn’t a romance cover or anything, so if the publisher’s intention is to scare the crap out of their readers and bring about their childhood traumas, then goddamn it, they succeeded. I’m ’bout to piss myself and hide under a blanket right now, only I’m afraid one of them will be waiting for me down there.

Damn you for bringing about my nightmares, Anonymous. Yeah… you know who you are.

17 Responses to “From the Depths of My Nightmares”

  1. Jackie
    1

    ((THUD))

    That was me, falling out of my chair and hitting the floor, helpless with mirth.

  2. Bonnie Dee
    2

    I love that cover. It’s beautifully creepy but also aesthetically pleasing to me. Are you a Stephen King reader? In one of his books, the one with the buried spaceship I think for which I can’t remember the name, there is a collection of dolls that goes after somebody. It was about the scariest scene in the book as I recall–although, clearly I’m not remembering the book too well at all. Scary dolls and clowns are always high on the creep-o-meter for me. Make that a clown doll and you’re batting a thousand.

  3. Jackie
    3

    the one with the buried spaceship

    TOMMYKNOCKERS, the Kingster’s attempt at science fiction.

    And he also rocks in his scary clown book, IT. One of my favorites.

  4. December Quinn
    4

    Lol!

    I gotta agree, that cover is really damn cool.

  5. rhian
    5

    When I was a kid, one of the meanest (and funniest) things i used to do to exact revenge on my sister was fuck with her dolls.
    Two best revenges:
    Told her her barbies came to life at night, then for several weeks i would get up in the middle of the night and flip them all around in their cases so when she opened the doll cases the next day, the dolls were no longer in the postions she left them in. Heh.
    After she was totally freaked out about her barbies, I borrowed a friend’s doll that talked and moved at the waist (Maybe a Chatty Kathy doll?). The doll was broke so the speech came out all garbled and dragging. I put the doll on a table and hid behind it. As my friend brought baby sis into the room I pulled the doll string, so the doll turned toward her, talking in slow-mo. She peed on herself and ran screaming from the room.
    She swore afterwards that the doll’s eyes were glowing. (Roll eyes)
    The spanking I got was so worth it.
    And just so you don’t think I’m totally rotten (just a wee bit rotten), I’d like to say she completely earned every act of revenge.
    She got me back years later when she convinced my oldest son he was fathered by aliens.

  6. rhian
    6

    eeeewwwwwww! Bam! I just went from your site to this one and look what i saw: http://www.bromart.com/
    Coincidence….. I think not.
    Excuse me - i need to go hide under MY covers.

  7. fiveandfour
    7

    I remember seeing an interview with Anne Rice once that took place in her home. Behind her was a big case of those dolls with the frilly, old-time velvet dresses and too-white faces. I thought, “Well that certainly explains a lot.”

    Because those dolls are like clowns, dude: creepy. ::Shudder::

  8. L.E. Bryce
    8

    You know, I saw this episode of Globe Trekker where this old guy who lives in a hut in the canals around Mexico City has these used doll heads and doll parts hanging from his ceiling and walls. I think he must be Bam’s soul mate or something. (okay, don’t hit me! It was just a thought!)

  9. Charlene
    9

    I looked at that site rhian linked to.

    I’m going to go to bed now and suck my thumb.

  10. Robyn
    10

    Reminds me of that old TV movie I saw as a kid. “Trilogy of Terror,” I think. Pre-Chucky by many years, this freaky little doll chased Karen Black around. I had nightmares for a month.

  11. kate r
    11

    so why’s the author’s name on there twice?

  12. rhian
    12

    Bam - there’s a doll uprising, a conspiracy, i tell you! And it’s ALL YOUR FAULT! I went to download my free video from my stockphoto membership and ya see what they give me: http://www.redwolfgallery.com/.....allWeb.mov
    You are one dangerous bitch girl, with the shit you can call into motion….
    Forget the thumbs, it’s time to start sucking toes.

  13. kate r
    13

    and totally off topic but the tim who does your site, are you the dee he refers to and did he actually PAINT the pictures on his site?

    If yes about the second (heck about the first too), you are not approaching kidding when you call him an evil genius.

    why yes, I am avoiding work any way possible,
    kate

  14. kate r
    14

    jesus rhian. . . You need to add a warning “Potential nightmare material Only check this link during daylight hours.”

  15. rhian
    15

    Kate - Ya shoulda heard the shriek when i first saw it. I swear they’re after me. Loaded a truly, horribly AWFUL doll to my blog yesterday - has a zombie face. No wonder I’m not sleeping so good lately.
    Robyn - saw Trilogy of Terror when i was a kid too and it’s probably one of the reasons I’m a totally disturbed person. Didn’t prevent me from showing it to MY kids though…. symptom of evil possession… ummmmm, maybe.

  16. Pet
    16

    Okay, I’ve been reading this site for a-a-ages and have never commented. But, okay, look at the little blurb– it says either “One foot in darkness” or “one fool in darkness”. However, what I orginally thought it said (and what I really, really hope it says) is “One tool in darkness”. Because really, anyone who decides that a blurb like “One fool/foot in darkness” is probs a tool.

    Just sayin.

  17. Rhonda
    17

    Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off until puddles of drool collect on the floor and nearly cause my untimely death by drowning. It’s all on your head if I croak. This stuff is much too funny to be legal.



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