That taste in your mouth? That’s your gorge hitting the back of your throat. As she combs the wig, its hair gets longer, the doll grows larger, and the hair donor’s body shrinks until they become a doll and the doll becomes them. Where she goes wildly off the rails is her obsession with knitting tiny wigs out of people’s hair that she fits onto her wooden doll. Clothilde is cold, snobby, and criticizes the way other people dress, which seems on brand for a French governess. The body count is low, but the emotional stakes get driven right through your heart.Ĭlothilde Dupont ( The Witch Doll, Helen Morgan)ĭespite being marketed to children, Helen Morgan’s The Witch Doll features one of the grossest dolls in Western Literature. Magic is more talked about than read because the opening 30 pages are deeply disorienting, and if you make it off the beach there are still a couple of confusing time jumps to come, but hang in there, because it all comes together in the end like two steel jaws snapping your hand off at the wrist. However, this book is so delightfully unpleasant that it’s impossible to leave off. Every time a killer puppet listicle pops up, William Goldman’s homicidal dummy makes an appearance, so I hate including him here.
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