"The Doll maker" is a horrible gruesome Shrieking Tale that only the bravest have heard about. Do you believe in ghost? You will now.

There was a teenager, a young Gothic teenager. She was always in black, never once smiled even in her baby pictures it was rare if you saw her teeth. Pale as the first snowflake in December, she was ... but why did this tragic incident happen to her???

It all happened on the day after Halloween, which of course was her birthday. Although she turned 16 on that day..... she wasn't very happy. Moaning around in her room waiting for the clock to strike midnight.

Her room, it was like nothing I have ever saw before! One black wall, the next white, then black again. All these posters around the room, not music bands......just. ... posters. Weird ones, each with squiggles and lines all over the place, but one. The one over her bed. The one she touched before right before she slept every night.

That poster...... started it all. She was only about 12 when she got it. Some old shriveled up lady gave it to her. "Destroy it! Burn it! But what ever you do, don't open it ... help me..." she said, and then she died there, right on the teenager's door steps. A doll appeared. But the lady vanished.

The teenage girl brought the poster inside up to her room and set it on her bed. She pulled out a match, lit it, then paused...."Oh it can't hurt to peek," she said to herself. With that she blew out the match and opened the poster.

A big cloud came out and there was the old lady, in ghost form!!! "I told you not to open it, didn't I?? Eh heh heh heh. Now your going to end up like me when you turn 16.... DEAD!!!!" Then the cloud disappeared and the ghost left nothing but a note.

Your time will be up at the stroke of midnight on your 16th birthday! Now that you opened this poster ... you must face the consequences!!! Hang me over your bed and touch me every night before you go to sleep. You must turn gothic. If you don't change your ways, you could go at any time...like that lady did! Hahahhahaaa.

The teenager did as she was told and before she knew it, she was 16!!!! "11:58" she said staring at the clock. Two minutes later the clock rang 12 strikes. Her mother walked in to ask her about the doll on the front porch, and ended up witnessing it all. The cloud came in the old lady form again, but this time with red eyes. She sucked the life out of the teenager and made her too turn into a shriveled old lady.

The cloud sucked her into the poster and spitted out the girl..... but now ... she was a 16 inch doll, just like the old lady.