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Deadly Dolls

Haunting Tales of the Uncanny
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'The sleeping wood had wakened. Her pearl teeth crashed against his with the sound of cymbals and her warm, fragrant breath blew around him like an Italian gale.' Dolls, mannequins, humanoid toys and dummies are the quintessential symbols of the uncanny, referenced by Freud in his foundational essay on the phenomenon of the familiar-turned-unsettling, and remaining a terrifying recurring menace of horror media today. In this new collection, Elizabeth Dearnley revives a sinister troupe of uncannily animated figures from tales across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by authors including E T A Hoffmann, Angela Carter, Vernon Lee, Algernon Blackwood and Rosemary Timperley. Terror and nightmares await when the doors of the doll house swing open and its denizens come out to play.

Author Biography:

Elizabeth Dearnley is a folklorist, artist and researcher based at Edinburgh Napier University. Her work explores fairy tales, horror and collective storytelling, and she has curated several projects including The Sandman for the Freud Museum, London. Her anthology Into the London Fog was published in the British Library Tales of the Weird series and Fearsome Fairies was published in the British Library Hardback Horror series.
Release date Australia
June 23rd, 2024
Contributor
  • Edited by Elizabeth Dearnley
Pages
272
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
ISBN-13
9780712355704
Product ID
38219155

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