{"product_id":"deadly-dolls-midnight-tales-of-uncanny-playthings","title":"Deadly Dolls : Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings","description":"\u003cp\u003eBritish Library Tales of the Weird #50.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDolls, 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. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTerror and nightmares await when the doors of the doll house swing open and its denizens come out to play.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elizabeth Dearnley (editor)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45616440705281,"sku":"9780712355704","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-1298.png?v=1727187786","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/deadly-dolls-midnight-tales-of-uncanny-playthings","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}