Deadly Dolls: Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings Volume 50

'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 19th and 20th 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: Elizabeth Dearnley
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: British Library
Published: 06/10/2025
Series: Tales of the Weird
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.12w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780712355704