← Back

The Eyes

Kit Pearson

First published 1998
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

"Bernie's Aunt Sheila, whom she and her sister Michelle are visiting, has a row of old dolls on a shelf in the room they are staying in. Bernie is terrified to find out that the eyes of one of the dolls glow and move in the dark like real eyes. Her sister doesn't believe her, since the doll appears ordinary in the daytime. Then Aunt Sheila tells Bernie a story from long ago that begins to unravel the mystery of the glowing eyes." (author's summary)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1998 Cover Don't Read This! and Other Tales of the Unnatural Groundwood Books / Douglas & McIntyre Anthology 132
December 1998 Cover Don't Read This! and Other Tales of the Unnatural Front Street Anthology 132
September 2000 Cover The Young Oxford Book of Nightmares Oxford University Press Anthology 164
September 2004 Cover Don't Read This! and Other Tales of the Unnatural Front Street Anthology 130