If the book cover gave you the creeps, the stories will give you goosebumps that will never go down no matter how much you rub. If you thought haunted dolls were the mainstream of doll horror, this book is foing to change your thoughts.
This anthology is designed to frighten and delight, featuring all-original dark tales of dolls compiled by one of the top editors in the field, a treasured toy box of stories about dolls of all types, including everything from puppets and poppets to mannequins and baby dolls.
Master anthologist Ellen Datlow has assembled a list of beautiful and terrifying stories from bestselling and critically acclaimed authors.
Featuring everything from life-sized clockwork dolls to all-too-human Betsy Wetsy-type baby dolls, these stories play into the true creepiness of the doll trope, but avoid the clichés that often show up in stories of this type.
The collection is illustrated with photographs of dolls taken by Datlow and other devoted doll collectors from the science fiction and fantasy field. The result is a star-studded collection exploring one of the most primal fears of readers of dark fiction everywhere, and one that every reader will want to add to their own collection.
It left me shivering thinking of days when I used to own dolls, glassy soulless (really?) eyes staring back at me. I think my nightmares will be more vivid from now on.
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