Nightmare time. No, really. Don't look at these dummies...

Shared by friend Alan Lee, here is a site with some truly disturbing images of period ventriloquism dummies. Now I am wanting a whole abandoned house of these things in book three of the trilogy. The plot has no need for such a thing, of course, but, lord, they need to live somewhere outside my head now...

I wish I hadn't looked, frankly. So, of course, I must share them. "Enjoy."

http://io9.com/5913114/vintage-ventriloquism-portraits-were-incredibly-unnerving