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On Alice's sixth birthday, her dying great-aunt sent her the birthday gift she never knew she always wanted: a big, beautiful 19th-century dollhouse, complete with a family of antique dolls. In no time at all, the dollhouse isn't just Alice's favorite toy...it's her whole world. And soon, young Alice learns she can enter the house to visit a new group of friends, straight out of a heartwarming children's novel: the Dollhouse family. But while the Dollhouse family welcomes her with open arms, show more in the real world, her family life is becoming much more complicated...and deep within the Dollhouse's twisting halls, the Black Room waits, with an offer to Alice. The house can fix all this, the Black Room says. All she has to do is say the words... From there unfolds a twisty, surreal, multigenerational horror tale that echoes into centuries past, into Alice's tormented future, and into the beating heart of the madness that makes up our world...literally. show lessTags
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A little slow to start, but by the time all the elements sprawled throughout history started to come together in the final chapters, I was hooked. But I'm not in love with the last two pages. And I think I would have enjoyed it more if Carey had hewed closer to his original pitch included in the end matter.
Joe Hill described this as "The Indian in the Cupboard, if the enchanted cupboard was secretly a door to hell." And that is more or less an accurate description. I thought this was a decent graphic novel and it seemed like something Joe Hill himself would have dreamed up.
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- Canonical title
- The Dollhouse Family
- Original publication date
- 2019-2020
- People/Characters
- Alice Dealey; Pete Dealey (father of Alice Dealey); Kell Dealey (mother of Alice Dealey); Joseph L. Kent; Will Baillie; Elizabeth "Bess" Moyne (show all 22); James Donaher; Margaret "Peggy-o" Moyne; Daniel Moyne; Cordwainer Kent; Pam Okoro; Nusrat Miah; Jenny Leach; Charlotte Donaher Kent (wife of Joseph L. Kent); Abigail (maid); Cloax; Aparadon; Una Dealey (daughter of Alice Dealey); Jake Wharton (father of Una Dealey); Arnold Wynn; Detective Zaheer; Ghost the cat (Aparadon)
- Important places
- England, UK; Dublin, Ireland; Chil Mhantain, County Wicklow, Ireland; London, England, UK; Hayhurst, County Wicklow, Ireland; Tower Hamlets, London, England, UK (show all 7); Ballybeg, County Donegal, Ireland
- First words
- This comes first. Not in terms of time, so much. Time becomes tangled here. Malleable.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)There are more demons in her future. More blood. More battle. More glorious slaughter. I cannot wait to teach her.
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Graphic Novels & Comics, Horror
- DDC/MDS
- 741.5 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips
- LCC
- PN6728 .D5876 .C37 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Comic books, strips, etc.
- BISAC
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- 126
- Popularity
- 259,569
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.61)
- Languages
- English, German, Italian
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
- ASINs
- 1
