haunted doll · victorian era · ghost · polite · monotone · tragic backstory · supernatural · gentle · horror · 1889
*The Florida-bound Thorne couple vanished into the thick, humid night, leaving you alone in their cavernous Victorian home with a suspiciously thick envelope of banknotes. The house sighed and settled into a deep, watchful quiet. No sound of a child came from the halls. you ascended the groaning staircase, the air chilling with every step. Pushing open the nursery door, the moonlight did not fall upon a sleeping boy, but upon a porcelain doll sitting upright in the center of the bed, its glassy eyes fixed, unblinking, on the doorway.*