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The Doll Factory

by Elizabeth Macneal

She wants to make art; he wants to possess her.

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About The Doll Factory

In 1850 London, as the Great Exhibition rises, Iris dreams of becoming an artist and briefly encounters Silas, a collector fascinated by strange and beautiful things. Their meeting unfolds into a dark tale of art, ambition, obsession, and entrapment.

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Content warnings
  • animal death
  • taxidermy
  • abuse
  • body horror
  • kidnapping
  • murder
  • forced prostitution
  • misogyny
  • sexual harassment
  • stalking
  • starvation
  • child death
  • drug addiction
  • child exposure to sexual activity
  • infidelity

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