Deadly Dolls by Elizabeth Dearnley

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Deadly Dolls by Elizabeth Dearnley

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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.

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Deadly Dolls by Elizabeth Dearnley

'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.
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.
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ISBN 13 9780712355704
ISBN 10 0712355707
Title Deadly Dolls
Author Elizabeth Dearnley
Series British Library Tales Of The Weird
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher British Library Publishing
Year published 2024-06-23
Number of pages 272
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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