The So I'm Dan Cummins and I'll be sharing another original short story of the fictional horror variety.

I highly recommend noise cancellation headphones for the best experience.

Also I've seen some confusion online about whether or not this series is serialized.

It is not. I am aiming to launch a new

serialized fictional show by the end of the year, but these nightmare-fuel stories have been

standalone installments thus far. That being said, you will notice little horror world connections

between certain stories as we move forward. There may be sequels to some stories down the

road and even multiple episodes about certain characters. I would like to revisit Ezra Calhoun, for

example at some point. Now let's get started. I hope you maybe not necessarily

enjoy but are disturbed by this new nightmare. It's going to be a tough

one to stomach for some of you. Time now for the tale of sometimes the darkness

wins.

Who made you? Darlene stood in her son's room, holding the bizarre little doll in her hands.

She'd never seen another one quite like it. It was clearly made by hand and not mass-produced.

This, whatever this was, was someone's custom creation. And while she definitely did not like it, and greatly wished her 10-year-old son Jack would grow bored with it and move on to something else so she could throw it in the trash and never ever have to see it again, she had to admit that whoever made it was extremely talented.

While she wouldn't describe it as a large doll, it certainly wasn't small either.

If you carry this thing around in public, which Jack had certainly sometimes done, people would notice and wonder why on earth you would ever want such a thing.

Roughly 18 inches long it weighed probably around five pounds the strange dolls female face Sam's face since that is what Jack insisted her name was was almost

Elvin

Fairy-like?

She was actually rather beautiful, just in a dark, eerie kind of way.

Her head and face seemed to have been molded out of some kind of clay, and her painted-on skin

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