Special Issue #10
Artwork by Andrew Foley
Dolls and Their Houses
On this last official day of summer, we come bearing a special issue that was months in the making and – we hope you’ll agree – worth the wait. With truly stunning and thought-provoking cover art by Andrew Foley, Dolls and Their Houses features seventeen original essays exploring the varied ways dollhouses and miniatures pervade horror.
We are deeply indebted to the wonderful writers whose work makes up this issue: Jeff Ambrose, Rebecca Booth, Gabrielle Sinclair Compton, Elizabeth Erwin, Tess Ezzy, Sarah Fevri, Linda Ganus, Dawn Keetley, Paul A J Lewis, Emily Naser-Hall, Catherine Pugh, Alice Sage, Lindsey Scott, Raquel Souza, NelRae Toler, Laura Wright, and Charlotte Yule.
As always, this issue is free to read and can be enjoyed on the website, through digital download or via flipbook.
We hope you enjoy!
Essay Collection
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The horrors of dolls and their houses
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“The Thing in the House”: Intrusive dolls and uncanny dollhouses in Agatha Christie’s life and writing
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Bigger on the inside: Twilight Zone’s “Miniature” and its music
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Tottie: A dreadful dolls house in the Folk Gothic canon
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Beneath the dollhouse: Navigating the exteriority and interiority of girlhood in HBO’s Sharp Objects (2018)
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Dolls and doppelgängers: The dollhouse as tactical map in Paul Feig’s The Housemaid
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An ornamental cage: A house of dolls and uneasy desire in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights
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Trauma escapes the dollhouse: Miniaturization’s failure in The Awakening (2011)
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A house made small enough to survive: Miniature domesticity and quiet horror in Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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Don’t come and knock on my door: The haunted dollhouse in One’s Company: A Novel
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The monster is difference made felt: Cuteness in Search Party’s “The Girl in the Basement”
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Little angels, bad dolls: Girlhood and suspended animation in Longlegs
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“I wanted to decapitate my dolls more efficiently”: Horror, child/teen agency and subversive pleasure in Netflix’s Wednesday
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The Devil’s playthings: Dolls, mannequins and diabolic determinism in Mario Bava’s Lisa and the Devil (1973)
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An original American: The antebellum dollhouse and its inhabitants in Tales from the Hood’s “KKK Comeuppance”
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Perfect playthings: The flawless fallacy of Dollhouse
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Psychological horror and parasitic-psychical puppetry in Resident Evil Village
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Dollmare and the horrors of capitalism