Creepy Ass Dolls

I have this vague memory of when I was about two or three years old of a doll I had. It was a clown, dressed in a red and white stripped one-piece suit with ruffles around the ankles and wrists. On top of its head was a red cone hat with tassel. Innocent enough looking-until you got to its face.


For some perverse reason the manufacturers of the doll gave it a solid white face with large red lips curled around a huge toothy grin. Its large staring eyes instead of looking like they were smiling looked menacing because of how its large bulbous nose distorted its face. It was the clown doll from Hell.


That’s the reason I can identify with the writer, Stacey Leigh Brooks, of the new Creepy-Ass Dolls book published by Krause Publications.


Inside you’ll find pictures of some of the unintentionally scariest dolls made over the last century. Oversize eyes, pointed teeth, creepy cloths, menacing expressions, unearthly skin tones-they’re all there and are guaranteed to give you the heebie-jeebies.


Full color photos, accompanied by some very descriptive text, make this little gem of a book a surefire way to keep you up at night.


I wonder what ever happened to my clown doll? Wait a minute! What’s that over in the shadows and why is it moving!? Oh no…………………