![]() ![]() Then, in the middle of the night, she finds him in the kitchen wearing her jewelry and sitting in a puddle of spilled milk, with a giant chicken roast in his lap. Within a few days, Kris wakes up to find Mr. Alas, Kris is in love, and desperate to outperform her annoying sister. Unlike Slappy, who sports a grey suit, Kris’ doll is decked out in a flannel shirt and blue jeans. So good that Lindy gets recruited to perform at a birthday party. ![]() ![]() The two are always competing, and Lindy’s act with the dummy - Slappy, she names him (as I’m sure you already know) - is getting pretty good. When Kris Powell’s identical sister, Lindy, finds a battered ventriloquist’s dummy at a construction lot, Kris quickly turns jealous. Stine probably had plenty of inspiration guiding his hand in writing “Night of the Living Dummy,” but with a character as iconic as Slappy - Goosebumps’ most notorious mascot - he probably influenced many of the doll-driven thrillers that followed (see: Dead Silence, Annabelle, Chucky’s disappointing return). Jump ahead thirty years or so and, like it or not, they’re still slashing their way through the genre. Movies like Child’s Play, Puppet Master, and the suitably titled Dolls had given the tiny terrors enough screen time to solidify their status as notable villains. Stine’s seventh Goosebumps book, “Night of the Living Dummy,” was first published, dolls were no strangers to the horror genre. “Even with her eyes closed and the covers pulled up to her head, she could picture the shadowy, distorted grin, the unblinking eyes. ![]()
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