{"product_id":"deadly-dolls-midnight-tales-of-uncanny-playthings-volume-50-9780712355704","title":"Deadly Dolls: Midnight Tales of Uncanny Playthings Volume 50","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Elizabeth Dearnley\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: British Library\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: British Library\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Non-Classifiable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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.' \u003c\/p\u003e\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.","brand":"British Library","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45045208613015,"sku":"9780712355704","price":884.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780712355704.webp?v=1769216171","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/deadly-dolls-midnight-tales-of-uncanny-playthings-volume-50-9780712355704","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}