Doubles, Dummies and Dolls: 21 Terror Tales of Replication

by Leonard Wolf (Editor)

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Twenty-one tales of the inanimate coming to life, including stories by Rudyard Kipling, Joyce Carol Oates, and Edgar Allan Poe.

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Leonard Wolf
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Leonard Wolf was born in Vulcan, Romania (Transylvania). He is the editor of The Essential Frankenstein, The Essential Dracula, and The Essential Jekyll and Hyde, the contributing editor to the Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and technical advisor on the films Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. show more Wolf's prize-winning poetry and fiction have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's and The New Yorker. His work in the horror genre has been honored twice with the Anne Radcliffe Award for Literature. He lives in New York City. show less

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Blackwood, Algernon (Contributor)
Bloch, Robert (Contributor)
Boucher, Anthony (Contributor)
Campbell, Ramsey (Contributor)
Chekhov, Anton (Contributor)
Ewers, Hanns Heinz (Contributor)
Fuentes, Carlos (Contributor)
Gautier, Theophile (Contributor)
George, WL (Contributor)
Hoffmann, ETA (Contributor)
James, Henry (Contributor)
Kersh, Gerald (Contributor)
King, Francis Henry (Contributor)
Kipling, Rudyard (Contributor)
Nesbit, E. (Contributor)
Oates, Joyce Carol (Contributor)
Poe, Edgar Allan (Contributor)
Rodoreda, Mercè (Contributor)
Saki (Contributor)
Sontag, Susan (Contributor)
Tolstoy, Leo (Contributor)

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  • The Double Knight (Le chevalier double) by Théophile Gautier

  • The Sand-Man (Der Sandmann) by E.T.A. Hoffmann

  • William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe

  • The Crooked Mirror: A Christmas St... (show all)ory (Кривое зеркало) by Anton Chekhov

  • The Dream of Duncan Parrenness by Rudyard Kipling

  • The Porcelain Doll (Фарфоровая Кукла) by Leo Tolstoy

  • The Jolly Corner by Henry James

  • Man-Size in Marble by E. Nesbit

  • Excerpt from The Student of Prague (Der Student von Prag), Chapter IX by Hans Heinz Ewers

  • Morlvera by Saki

  • The Terror of the Twins by Algernon Blackwood

  • Waxworks by W.L. George

  • The Scar by Ramsey Campbell

  • The Ghost of Me by Anthony Boucher

  • Sweets to the Sweet by Robert Bloch

  • The Puppets by Francis King

  • The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy by Gerald Kersh

  • The Dolls' Room (La sala de les nines) by Mercé Rodoreda

  • The Doll Queen (La muñeca reina) by Carlos Fuentes

  • The Doll by Joyce Carol Oates

  • The Dummy by Susan Sontag

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Fiction and Literature, Horror
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808.83 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism Composition Literature Collections Collections of fiction
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PN6120.95 .H724 .D68 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Fiction
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