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Available
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Publication
Biblioasis (2021), Edition: Reprint, 64 pages
Description
World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2021. When the Lady Gwendolen, age six, drops her doll down a staircase, her ladyship solemnly digs her fractured companion a grave. Luckily Mr Puckler, renowned doll doctor, thinks he can help--but when his daughter Else goes missing, he's not sure whose voice he hears calling to him in the night.
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LibraryThing member Maydacat
A doll is broken when her young owner falls down the stairs holding her. Taken to a doll hospital, she is lovingly repaired by a man who sees her as almost a living creature. He finally asks his young daughter to return her to her rightful owner, but then his daughter doesn’t return home. He is
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in great despair and anguish, and then, he sees the ghostly figure of the doll. It’s quite a chilling tale, gripping and intriguing, and the end may surprise and sadden you a bit. Masterfully written, it holds up quite well even by today’s standards. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
64 p.; 6.25 inches
ISBN
1771964537 / 9781771964531