The Doll-Master

The Doll-Master
Author :
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Total Pages : 294
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780802189936
ISBN-13 : 0802189938
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis The Doll-Master by : Joyce Carol Oates

This Bram Stoker Award–winning collection is “certain to stick in your mind long after you’ve turned the last page” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Includes “Big Momma,” a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Short Story Here are six of Joyce Carol Oates’s most “frightening—and deeply disturbing—short stories” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the titular story, a boy becomes obsessed with his cousin’s doll after her tragic death. As he grows older, he begins to collect “found dolls” from surrounding neighborhoods . . . each with its own sinister significance. In “Gun Accident,” a teenage girl is delighted to house-sit for her favorite teacher, until an intruder forces his way inside—changing more than one life forever. The collection closes with the taut tale of a mystery bookstore owner whose designs on a rare bookshop in scenic New Hampshire devolve into a menacing game with real-life consequences. “At the heart of each story is a predator-prey relationship, and what makes them so terrifying is that most of us can easily picture ourselves as the prey, at least at some time during our lives” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). “Everything she writes, in whatever genre, has an air of dread, because she deals in vulnerabilities and inevitabilities, in the desperate needs that drive people . . . to their fates. A sense of helplessness is the essence of horror, and Oates conveys that feeling as well as any writer around.” —Terrence Rafferty, The New York Times Book Review “One of the stranger parts of the human condition may be our deep fascination, and at times troubling exploration, of the darker aspects of our nature . . . No other author explores the ugly, and at times, blazingly unapologetic underbelly of these impulses quite like Joyce Carol Oates in The Doll-Master.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “In her new collection . . . [Oates] relishes moments of gothic melodrama, while rooting them firmly in grindingly ordinary American lives.” —The Guardian “Oates convincingly demonstrates her mastery of the macabre with this superlative story collection . . . This devil’s half-dozen of dread and suspense is a must read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

The Doll Maker

The Doll Maker
Author :
Publisher : Mulholland Books
Total Pages : 423
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780316244725
ISBN-13 : 0316244724
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The Doll Maker by : Richard Montanari

Detectives Byrne and Balzano return to the streets of Philadelphia to put an end to a macabre succession of murdered children. A quiet Philadelphia suburb. A woman cycles past a train depot with her young daughter. There she finds a murdered girl posed on a newly painted bench. Beside her is a formal invitation to a tea dance in a week's time. Seven days later, two more young victims are discovered in an abandoned house, posed on painted swings. At the scene is an identical invitation. This time, though, there is something extra waiting for Detectives Kevin Byrne and Jessica Balzano: a delicate porcelain doll. It's a message. And a threat. With the killers at large, Detectives Byrne and Balzano have just seven more days to find the link between the murders before another innocent child is snatched from the streets.

The Doll Collection

The Doll Collection
Author :
Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 352
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780765376800
ISBN-13 : 0765376806
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis The Doll Collection by : Ellen Datlow

"Seventeen brand-new tales of dolls"--Jacket.

The Dollmaker

The Dollmaker
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 691
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781439164518
ISBN-13 : 1439164517
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis The Dollmaker by : Harriette Arnow

The Dollmaker was originally published in 1954 to immediate success and critical acclaim. In unadorned and powerful prose, Harriette Arnow tells the unforgettable and heartbreaking story of the Nevels family and their quest to preserve their deep-rooted values amidst the turmoil of war and industrialization. When Gertie Nevels, a strong and self-reliant matriarch, follows her husband to Detroit from their countryside home in Kentucky, she learns she will have to fight desperately to keep her family together. A sprawling book full of vividly drawn characters and masterful scenes, The Dollmaker is a passionate tribute to a woman's love for her children and the land.

The Doll

The Doll
Author :
Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 167
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780062080363
ISBN-13 : 0062080369
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Doll by : Daphne Du Maurier

“Du Maurier is in a class by herself.” —New York Times Perhaps best known for her immortal gothic masterwork Rebecca—the basis for the Academy Award-winning motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock—Daphne de Maurier began her illustrious writing career penning short stories. In The Doll, thirteen of du Maurier’s early shorter fictional works have been collected—each story written before the author’s twenty-third birthday and some in print for the first time since the 1930s. Compelling tales of human foibles and tragic romance, the stories in The Doll represent the emergence of a remarkable literary talent who later went on to create Jamaica Inn, The Birds, and other classic works. This breathtaking collection of short fiction belongs on the bookshelf of every Daphne du Maurier fan.

The Doll

The Doll
Author :
Publisher : Catapult
Total Pages : 100
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781640094239
ISBN-13 : 1640094237
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Doll by : Ismail Kadare

In this autobiographical novel, Albania’s most renowned novelist and poet Ismail Kadare explores his relationship with his mother in a delicately wrought tale of home, family, creative aspirations, and personal and political freedom. “Houses like ours seemed constructed with the specific purpose of preserving coldness and misunderstanding for as long as possible.” In his father’s great stone house with hidden rooms and even a dungeon, Ismail grows up with his mother at the center of his universe. Fragile as a paper doll, she finds herself at odds with her tight–lipped and wise mother–in–law who, as is the custom for women of a certain age, will never again step foot over the threshold to leave her home. Young Ismail finds it difficult to understand his mother’s tears, though he can understand her boredom. She told him the reason herself in a phrase that terrified and obsessed the boy: “The house is eating me up!” As Ismail explores his world, his mother becomes fearful of her intellectual son—he uses words she does not understand, writes radical poetry, falls in love far too easily, and seems to renounce everything she believes in. He will, she fears, have to exchange her for some other superior mother when he becomes a famous writer. The Doll is a delicate and disarming autobiographical novel, an exploration of Kadare’s creative aspirations and their tangled connections to his childhood home and his mother’s tenuous place within it.

Dollmaking

Dollmaking
Author :
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Total Pages : 109
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0894803115
ISBN-13 : 9780894803116
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Dollmaking by : E. J. Taylor

Here are seven original designs to suit the skills of any crafter from the ra west beginner to the most sophisticated talent. Whether for play or display, they will become keepsake dolls that are sure to be cherished. Line, full-color, and two-color illustrations.

The Doll

The Doll
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 156
Release :
ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105036666944
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis The Doll by : Algernon Blackwood

The Doll Snatchers

The Doll Snatchers
Author :
Publisher : Viking Children's Books
Total Pages : 180
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0670277738
ISBN-13 : 9780670277735
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Synopsis The Doll Snatchers by : Norma Kassirer

A reformed doll snatcher recalls the final caper that made him decide to retire.

Dollmaking, One Artist's Approach

Dollmaking, One Artist's Approach
Author :
Publisher : McKinley Book
Total Pages : 167
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0962882100
ISBN-13 : 9780962882104
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Dollmaking, One Artist's Approach by : Robert McKinley

DOLLMAKING: One Artist's Approach by Robert Mckinley reveals in over 200 step-by-step photographs with text fifteen years of the author's expertise in the creation of fine one-of-a-kind artist's dolls. Available for $29.95 unsigned or $35.00 signed (plus $2.00 P&H each), checks should be made payable to Mckinley Books at 107 East Cary Street, Richmond, VA 23219.