{"product_id":"deadly-dolls-midnight-tales-of-uncanny-playthings-volume-50-9780712355704","title":"Deadly Dolls: Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings Volume 50","description":"'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.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Dearnley\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eInto the London Fog\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFearsome Fairies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"British Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51319220338962,"sku":"9780712355704","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d9db6cd6-b9ff-4fa2-a270-cb80aa36e226.jpg?v=1748528616","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/deadly-dolls-midnight-tales-of-uncanny-playthings-volume-50-9780712355704","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}