Deadly Dolls: Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings Volume 50 - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Elizabeth DearnleySeries:Tales of the WeirdPublish date:2025-06-10Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:British LibraryISBN-13:9780712355704ISBN-10:712355707UPC:9780712355704Book Category:Non-ClassifiableBook Subcategory:Non-ClassifiableSize:7.40 x 5.12 x 1.02 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SCN4SAFD1W
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...
Series: Tales of the Weird
Language:EnglishPublisher:British LibraryISBN-13:9780712355704ISBN-10:712355707UPC:9780712355704Book Category:Non-ClassifiableBook Subcategory:Non-ClassifiableSize:7.40 x 5.12 x 1.02 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SCN4SAFD1W
Elizabeth Dearnley is a folklorist, artist and Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University. Her work includes immersive retellings of E. T. A. Hoffmann's 'The Sandman' (Freud Museum London) and the Cottingley Fairies, and she has edited the British Library fiction anthologies Into the London Fog and Fearsome Fairies.
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