It's time for Friday Night Frights, as creepy dolls return to the History Center of Olmsted County for the 7th year in a row.

Delightful as they may be to their young owners, dolls have a long history of creeping people out due to something called the ...

Caleb Baumgartner loves horror, but picking the "contestants" for the annual Creepy Doll contest at the History Center of Olmsted County can be, well, unsettling. History Center of Olmsted County ...

Sheriff David Criner and the Midland County Sheriff's Office plan to host a free Halloween event for the community from 6 to ...

"M3GAN" is a new horror film that will be released on January 6. Megan is the latest in a long line of scary dolls in horror-screen history. Billy, Brahms, and Annabelle are all horrifying dolls in ...

As a young child, you want to know what my favorite toys were? American Girl Dolls. While I certainly had a neverending collection of plushies of all of my favorite characters from the best Pixar ...

(CNN) — The lifelike but blank stare. The almost-but-not-quite accurate proportions. The vacant smile. Dolls are meant to be nothing more than playthings for children, but it must be said: They’re ...

Over the years, the creepy doll trope has proven to be one of the most effective in the horror genre. The appetite for it never seems to wane, as is evident with the massive success of the Child's ...

Some creepy dolls found along Texas' gulf shore are encrusted with barnacles, sticky little crustaceans related to crabs.(Jace Tunnell / Mission-Aransas Reserve) The dolls appear, one by one, coated ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --When the lights go out at the Chicago History Museum on Halloween, dolls that have spent decades locked away in storage will emerge from the shadows to play. The "Haunted Dolls and ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...