The Dollmaker's Ghost

The Dollmaker's Ghost
Author: Larry Levis
Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Classic Contem
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1997-10
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

A reissuing of The Dollmaker's Ghost, poetry by Larry Levis.

Ghost Doll and Jasper

Ghost Doll and Jasper
Author: Fiona McDonald
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2012-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1620871742

In search of a loving home, a ghost doll, accompanied by her cat companion, tries to navigate the modern city and avoid capture by an evil scientist.

The Dollmaker

The Dollmaker
Author: Harriette Arnow
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 691
Release: 2010-10-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439164517

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 Graveyard

The Doll Graveyard
Author: Lois Ruby
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545620651

This graveyard hides buried dolls...and buried secrets! The house at Cinder Creek hides many secrets. Shelby and Brian Tate have heard heated voices crying out in the night. They've noticed the unsettling way things move around on their own. But the most chilling thing about their new home is the cemetery someone's built out back. The graves are tiny, only big enough for dolls. AND THE DOLLS WON'T STAY BURIED.Soon Shelby's learning all about them. Betsy Anne's angelic appearance hides a raging fire behind her eyes, while Baby Daisy changes faces as quickly as she changes moods. And Miss Amelia's cracked porcelain skin and twisted lips only hint at the pain she once endured at the hands of a very angry girl. If Shelby can help the dolls find peace, she and her family might actually be happy at Cinder Creek. But if she can't--the dolls will have their revenge....

The Travels of Ching

The Travels of Ching
Author: Robert Bright
Publisher: Denio Press
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2012-12
Genre: Dolls
ISBN: 1939218055

In the land of China a dollmaker made a little doll. The doll's name was Ching. This is the adventure of a little doll who travels from the mountains of China to big city penthouses in search of someone who wants him.

Zigzag

Zigzag
Author: Robert D. San Souci
Publisher: august house
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780874837643

With some help from a group of field mice, an odd-looking doll--named Zigzag for his crooked mouth--searches for a child to love him.

The Dollmaker

The Dollmaker
Author: Nina Allan
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1590519949

A TOR.COM BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: A fairy-tale-infused love story between two lonely souls—with “distinctly Gothic overtones and a Nabokovian narrator” (Locus). “The literary equivalent of getting lost in a steampunk-inspired, cutting edge fashion show . . . while you dream of places you’ve never seen.” —Book Riot Stitch by perfect stitch, Andrew Garvie makes exquisite dolls in the finest antique style. Like him, they are diminutive, but graceful, unique and with surprising depths. Perhaps that’s why he answers the enigmatic personal ad in his collector’s magazine. Letter by letter, Bramber Winters reveals more of her strange, sheltered life in an institution on Bodmin Moor, and the terrible events that put her there as a child. Andrew knows what it is to be trapped; and as they knit closer together, he weaves a curious plan to rescue her. On his journey through the old towns of England he reads the fairy tales of Ewa Chaplin—potent, eldritch stories which, like her lifelike dolls, pluck at the edges of reality and thread their way into his mind. When Andrew and Bramber meet at last, they will have a choice—to remain alone with their painful pasts or break free and, unlike their dolls, come to life.

The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story

The Routledge Handbook to the Ghost Story
Author: Scott Brewster
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2017-11-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317288939

The Handbook to the Ghost Story sets out to survey and significantly extend a new field of criticism which has been taking shape over recent years, centring on the ghost story and bringing together a vast range of interpretive methods and theoretical perspectives. The main task of the volume is to properly situate the genre within historical and contemporary literary cultures across the globe, and to explore its significance within wider literary contexts as well as those of the supernatural. The Handbook offers the most significant contribution to this new critical field to date, assembling some of its leading scholars to examine the key contexts and issues required for understanding the emergence and development of the ghost story.

Tales from the Haunted South

Tales from the Haunted South
Author: Tiya Miles
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2015-08-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469626349

In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.