by Matt Coyle
First published 2016
The dolls wake to find their human hosts dead. Blood stains the rooms where they once brought comfort to sleeping children. Now they must flee before someone discovers them at the crime scene. What follows becomes a twisted journey across a landscape that mirrors their own fractured innocence. Each doll carries the weight of what they witnessed, yet they cannot speak of the horrors they saw. The road stretches ahead with no clear destination, only the need to escape. Matt Coyle crafts this story as gothic noir wrapped in the form of a children's book, complete with detailed pen and ink illustrations that bring each scene to vivid life. The dolls face a world that no longer has room for the safety they once represented. Their flight becomes a meditation on lost innocence and the persistence of hope even in the darkest circumstances.
Genres: mystery, horror, thriller, gothic
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: dark-fantasy, gothic
80 pages · Paperback · Dover
Content warnings: gore, violence