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Two rooms are depicted in a dollhouse. In the first room, a doll plays the piano and stares at a flower under glass. In the other room, a dolls sits in a bed while a child peers at it through a window in the dollhouse.
Posted on September 21, 2026

Dolls and Their Houses

Special Issue #10

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. You can access all of these options by visiting the Dolls and Their Houses publication landing page.

We hope you enjoy!

A woman clutches her steering wheel while she screams in her car.
Posted on March 25, 2025

The Man Downstairs: Talking Longlegs (2024)

Podcast

On today’s episode, it is Nicolas Cage unleashed to somewhat questionable results in Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs. In the film, FBI agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe), a woman with possible clairvoyant abilities, is drawn into a series of murder-suicides spanning decades. A Lynchian crime procedural that leans into a fusion of supernatural and religious horror, Longlegs is a highly stylized descent into darkness that has left audiences divided. We’re breaking it all down today with spoilers so stay tuned.screenshot announcing name of the podcast.

 

Posted on August 25, 2024

Oz Perkins’ Longlegs as Folk Horror

Dawn Keetley

Oz Perkins’ 2024 film, Longlegs, is at first glance a serial killer film, with references abounding to Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs (1991) and, to a lesser extent, David Fincher’s Seven (1995). Perkins has been quite explicit in interviews, however, that he lures viewers in with this promise and then gives them something else. That something else is an occult horror film: some critics have pointed to the influence of The Exorcist (William Friedkin, 1973), but I see more pronounced echoes of Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) and The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976). The “Hail Satan!” refrain—which serves not least as the last line of the film—definitively evokes Rosemary’s Baby.

Longlegs is, though, also folk horror—and I will be developing this perhaps not-so-obvious claim at greater length in an article I’m working on. Thus far, no one has identified the film as folk horror, except for one brief post that compares it to Texas Chain Saw Massacre. (An interesting comparison!)

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