Russian wooden nesting dolls have been around for more than a hundred years. Whoever came up with the idea of having different-sized wooden dolls, painted to depict different characters probably meant to hide dark secrets in plain sight but we will never know, will we? Over the years, horror movie fans have refashioned seemingly harmless nesting dolls to create nightmare-inspiring objects you wouldn’t want to be the last thing you see before heading off to bed.

This set of nesting dolls has some really eerie pictures, one being a ghostly woman whose idea of fun is to pose and hug a skull rather tightly and smile. Scary. But very very cool.