The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story

Reading "The Haunted Dolls' House" in The Collected Ghost Stories of M. R. James when I was a child gave me a taste for such stories. I haven't been a child in decades, but I was glad to buy The Dollhouse: A Ghost Story. Poor Alice. Her parents are getting a divorce. She's having to go with her mother to a big old house belonging to old Mrs. Bishop, who needs a nurse. Alice hits her head during the train ride to the house, so she's not sure if what she's seeing is real or caused by her injury. The house is kept in the exact style it had in 1929. In the attic there is an off-limits dollhouse that is an exact replica of the real , with dolls that are exact replicas of the people who lived there in 1929. When Alice sleeps, she dreams she is in the house as it was in 1929. Only the daughter who was called "the Fizz" can see or hear her. The dollhouse changes on its own. Alice believes it's connected to the real house. Something happened long ago that is still affecting the house. Can Alice solve the mystery? It's a good ghost story for tweens on up.