Slappy the Dummy

Kevin and Greg found Slappy at a yard sale in 1993, intending to use the dummy for their ventriloquism act. They discovered a scrap of paper tucked inside his jacket pocket containing a strange incantation. Reading the phrase "You and I are one now" bound them to the doll, bringing it to life with a raspy voice and malevolent intent.

Once animated, Slappy forced his young masters to obey while framing them for his own violent acts. The story ends with the children destroying the dummy, yet the character returns in Night of the Living Dummy II to haunt a new family and later attempts to take over a school in Slappy's Revenge. These three books form the core narrative arc where an inanimate object violates innocence and turns against its creators. [edit]