Download or read book The Fire Doll written by James Ulmer and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in The Fire Doll investigate the notion that our experience can be richer, more inclusive, and sometimes more unsettling than the life prescribed by the normal daylight sense of reality. American writing has often been engaged with elements of mystery and the uncanny, and the American Dream has always had its corresponding nightmare. These stories feature haunted landscapes, places where violence and tragedy have left their marks: a man is subsumed by his vision of falling pine straw, a camera captures something the eye alone can’t perceive, and a dead girl leads an unsuspecting boy to a killer’s burial ground. In the title story, a Houston homicide detective is haunted, literally and figuratively, by the death of his partner. In order to redeem himself, he must hunt down her killer and confront his own complicity in her death. Written in the tradition of dark American masters like Hawthorne and Henry James, the tales in this collection occupy the uncertain borderland between the living and the dead. “Something on the far side of the stream caught his eye. A woman – a girl, really – stood in the spot where the dog had vanished. Even to the boy, the girl seemed instantly out of place. With her knees bent in toward each other and her long legs splayed out, there was something awkward or coltish about her. She wore a top with horizontal black and white stripes, a short black skirt, fishnet stockings, and ankle-high black boots with pointed toes and spike heels. The boy squinted and cocked his head, uncertain of what he was seeing. What was she doing there? Her dark red hair, chopped off at asymmetrical angles, stuck up from her head in every direction. He couldn’t have been confronted by a stranger sight if Pinocchio or the White Queen had stepped suddenly out of the trees. The girl seemed, somehow, unstrung, the strength drained from her dangling arms and legs, and the boy thought of a marionette he’d once seen hanging from a peg on the wall of a puppet master’s shop. She stared dejectedly at the ground around her feet.” —from the book
Download or read book The Lonely Doll written by Dare Wright and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1998 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely doll named Edith finally finds friendship with two visiting teddy bears.
Download or read book The Deadly Doll written by Janine Burke and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2008 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Claudine's family receives in the mail a beautiful old French doll that has been in the family for generations, no one anticipates its malevolent intentions.
Download or read book Doll written by Rex Sparger and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1984-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behind the Attic Wall written by Sylvia Cassedy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved.
Download or read book The Doll Book written by Estelle Ansley Worrell and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1966 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes patterns for dolls and costumes of 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries.
Download or read book Enchanted Doll written by Marina Bychkova and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than mere playthings, Enchanted Dolls are elegantly sculpted and articulated works of art. Strikingly nude, engraved or adorned in opulent sculptural costumes of precious metals, gemstones and rare found objects, each doll intricately conveys an aspect of our humanity. As Marina says 'the reason I love making dolls is because it it's a multidisciplinary art form. To create a doll I get to do it all: sculpture, industrial design, painting, engraving, mold-making, drawing, metalwork, fashion and jewellery design. I want it all!'
Download or read book The Voodoo Doll written by Sylvia A. Witmore and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautiful Carolina coast is the setting for this novel. Kimberly Marshall's life was one most women would envy. She was sincere, beautiful and was married to a very rich older man who worshipped her. Her world came crashing down around her the day she discovered a Voodoo Doll in the bottom drawer of her husband's desk. The doll was made into the exact image of Kimberly, wearing a yellow dress identical to one of hers. She was shocked to discover the top of the dress wassmeared with blood and long straight pins pierced through the chest straight into the back. Then, the threats began......someone connected to her household was trying to kill her and each attemptbecame worse than the last one. Kim enlists the help of a handsome neighbor to come to her rescue and help her solve the mystery and stop the killing before both of them become victims themselves. Kim has a very hard time believing that her husband or anyone in his family is trying to murder her, but she discovers that only the persons in her household would have direct contact with her; the house is too well guarded for an outsider to be able to get that close to her. Mystery, mayhem, romanceand an unusual secret are combined in this book and will keep the reader guessing until the very end.
Download or read book The Doll s Head written by Paul C. Herndon and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doll’s Head By: Paul C. Herndon It is the 1950s, rural Tennessee. Cold, conniving Tad Caudell has taken over the farm of his orphaned younger cousin, Charles “Bimbo” Benton. Tad bullies and brutalizes Bimbo, treating him no better than a hired hand. And when Bimbo brings home his new bride, Tad has no compunction about taking her, as well as the farm, away from Bimbo.
Download or read book The Doll Collection written by Ellen Datlow and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Seventeen brand-new tales of dolls"--Jacket.
Download or read book The Friendship Doll written by Kirby Larson and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am Miss Kanagawa. In 1927, my 57 doll-sisters and I were sent from Japan to America as Ambassadors of Friendship. Our work wasn't all peach blossoms and tea cakes. My story will take you from New York to Oregon, during the Great Depression. Though few in this tale are as fascinating as I, their stories won't be an unpleasant diversion. You will make the acquaintance of Bunny, bent on revenge; Lois, with her head in the clouds; Willie Mae, who not only awakened my heart, but broke it; and Lucy, a friend so dear, not even war could part us. I have put this tale to paper because from those 58 Friendship Dolls only 45 remain. I know that someone who chooses this book is capable of solving the mystery of the missing sisters. Perhaps that someone is you.
Download or read book Doll Play written by Trula Magruder and published by American Girl Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 60 games, crafts, and activities in this book, girls will discover hours of playtime fun with their dolls. Together, they can create a doll-sized bowling center; set up an animal shelter for plush pets; plus make jewelry, furnishings, and other pretty doll dcor.
Download or read book Revenge of the Dolls written by Carol Beach York and published by E-Rights/E-Reads Limited. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her uneasy feeling about her aunt's collection of grotesque homemade dolls causes Alice to be particularly suspicious of a doll given to a mischevious cousin.
Download or read book The Bone Doll s Twin written by Lynn Flewelling and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes the price of destiny is higher than anyone imagined.... Dark Magic, Hidden Destiny For three centuries a divine prophecy and a line of warrior queens protected Skala. But the people grew complacent and Erius, a usurper king, claimed his young half sister’s throne. Now plague and drought stalk the land, war with Skala’s ancient rival Plenimar drains the country’s lifeblood, and to be born female into the royal line has become a death sentence as the king fights to ensure the succession of his only heir, a son. For King Erius the greatest threat comes from his own line — and from Illior’s faithful, who spread the Oracle’s words to a doubting populace. As noblewomen young and old perish mysteriously, the king’s nephew — his sister’s only child — grows toward manhood. But unbeknownst to the king or the boy, strange, haunted Tobin is the princess’s daughter, given male form by a dark magic to protect her until she can claim her rightful destiny. Only Tobin’s noble father, two wizards of Illior, and an outlawed forest witch know the truth. Only they can protect young Tobin from a king’s wrath, a mother’s madness, and the terrifying rage of her brother’s demon spirit, determined to avenge his brutal murder....
Download or read book Federal Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Attitude written by Tom Tierney and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'll love this new deluxe edition of an underground classic. Meet 37 outrageous, sexy, glamorous swinging singles and socialites at a fabulous Manhattan cocktail party hosted by "Aunt Mary." A parade of gay and lesbian stereotypes are trotted out in paper doll form for perusal in this reprint of the iconic, highly collectible Attitudes book first released by renown paper doll artist Tom Tierney in 1979. This new volume has been recreated, now in full color and with six new characters, to commemorate one of the early books in a long series of paper doll books for which Tierney has become famous. Enjoy hairdressers, movie stars, millionaires, models, drag queens, and others, each nearly naked in seductive loungerie, and with character appropriate clothing.
Download or read book A Study of Dolls written by Granville Stanley Hall and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
