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Ruby Jean Jensen
The little dolly waited in the attic to be picked up, cooed over and set free to work her will. After her father’s death, Dorrie found happiness in the attic…
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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…
Jessica lived with her father, mother, and brother. Her sister was away making a living as an artist. Jessica was devastated when her mother left to pursue a career. Lonely…
In the house that had been in his family for generations, Grand-dad had raised sisters Laura and Fawn after their parents were killed in an auto accident. Believing that her…
Sybil received the baby dolly as a present, but she didn’t like it. Three days later, her sister Rose Marie died a mysterious death. Later, when Sybil’s daughter Rose had…
At their parting, Heather gave her daughters a beautiful doll … Zenoa. Over time, the doll developed motives of its own. And it would persist for decades. The doll took…
Dirk was feeling lost and lonely. His wife Patricia had announced that she was struggling to feel any purpose in her life and had decided to move into an apartment…
Ten-year-old son Timmy had already missed the opportunities to go to summer camp with one of his buddies. When family acquaintance Dan offered to take Timmy to the mountains for…
Following the abuse at nursery school, his father was keen on getting Barry away for the summer. He knew nothing about Barry’s new special friends that protected him wherever he…
For twenty-six years, Daniel had been constantly tormented by the death of Charlene, his cousin and his sweetheart. He knew things about Charlene that no one else ever knew. After…
Ellen brought her Aladdin’s Lamp home from a garage sale. Violence was suddenly a part of their lives. Trouble seemed to follow even after moving to a different town, and…
The spooky chain letter stated: Whosoever possesseth this letter and dares to break this chain shall suffer disaster and death … Abby and Brian would feel compelled to send the…
Amy and Jodi hardly remembered their father who lived and worked in a carnival, but now they were going to live with him. Their lives were soon disrupted by two…
CHILDISH GAMES … GRISLY CONSEQUENCES
Amanda was shocked and mystified when Alex apparently committed suicide. How could he have slashed his wrists in the bathtub and then slit his own…
Heather was forced to go live with her Uncle. Uncle Reece, her mother’s brother, felt obligated to take her in. But, Aunt Pansy and her cousins resented that she was…
Ten-agers Greta and her cousin Derek are constant companions. Upon finding an old well, of course they must pry off the rotten wood cover. Derek fetches his Dad’s fishing rod…
Babette could not understand why her crazy mother, Ketti, hated and feared her little brother, Paddy. Then, one horrible night, y was found dead in his crib, and Ketti ran…
No one heard the gunshots. Just as no one ever heard Celia’s screams or those of her children for all these years. But in the isolation of the Florida swamps…
THE NIGHT THE CHILDREN CAME HOME
It all started the night of Dalton Walsh’s revival meeting… when the earth beneath his tent trembled with a kind of vengeance. It was…
It is 1865 and as the Civil War rages across the land, an 11-year-old boy awakens to the sound of thunderous drumbeats. Four days later, his mother is dead, and…
After her parents passed away, Tara sought to escape the inevitable marriage to the wealthy Albert if she stayed in town. After traveling to San Francisco with almost no money…
A pattern was developing, maybe even intensifying. The dream would come to Magret-the baby, its head rising right out of the earth, its piercing eyes staring at her. Then she…
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…
Sheba had found the perfect place to attract handsome young men. But the fog … the icy water … the unexplained presence in the house that seems to get stronger…
At her mother’s deathbed, Andrea Reid is told that she was kidnapped as a baby, and is given a letter to re-introduce her to her real family. She reluctantly decides…
Ellen returns home from college hoping to spark some interest from Rodney, the man that she has loved since her teenage years. She seeks peace and comfort in her childhood…
Gladys Swartz was a plain girl boiling with suppressed desire. In a book on the occult, she read of a bodily possession and conceived a devilish plan. She brought about…
Felicia, at age 14, gave birth to a beautiful child that took the name Jeremy. Despite Felicia’s attempts to explain that she had done nothing to cause the pregnancy, her…
At age sixty-five, Emily Alexander fell and broke her hip. Since she had been living alone and had no friends to help out, she was forced to recuperate in Willowbrook…
