Deadly dolls : midnight tales of uncanny playthings / edited by Elizabeth Dearnley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dearnley, Elizabeth, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horror tales.

Physical Description:

318 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

London : British Library Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

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. 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 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.

ISBN:

9780712355704

0712355707

OCLC:

1454911186

Publisher Number:

CIPO000053194