{"product_id":"9780712355704","title":"Deadly Dolls","description":"\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTerror and nightmares await when the doors of the doll house swing open and its denizens come out to play.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elizabeth Dearnley","offers":[{"title":"British Library Publishing |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2025-06-10","offer_id":50945734377727,"sku":"9780712355704","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_25d65c19-be6b-4204-96d8-37c595e52ef5.jpg?v=1793998644","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780712355704","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}