
Book guide
The Doll Factory
She wants to make art; he wants to possess her.
Genre and trope pairingsHistoricalClass divideThrillerCaptiveThrillerStalkerLiteraryDisabled repLiterarySocial commentaryPsychological ThrillerObsession
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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.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Light
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Balanced
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



