What a strange old woman Miss Mladic is - awkward, unsocial, eccentric. But also cold, calculating...and menacing. Why would their parents associate with such a person, the children wondered, as they made their way to her house for dinner? And why would they be placing their children in such obvious danger? The Dollhouse is a modern day fairy tale about two children, a sinister old woman, and settling old scores. It is the first in a series of pocket nightmares.