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* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Stephen's ultimate fate is to be reincarnated into the body of a doll, a female person, with all his flaws excised.]]
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* ReincarnatedAsTheOppositeSex: [[spoiler: Stephen's ultimate fate is to be reincarnated into the body of a doll, a female person, with all his flaws excised.]]
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''[[http://www.captainsupermarket.com/the-dollmaker.html The Dollmaker]]'' is a 2012 horror novel by Justin Robinson. It centers around Stephen Monaghan, a genius who, unable to make a connection with a real woman, decides to make them instead: out of wood, porcelain, plastic, and glass. Each one takes a piece out of him, from his signature to his shadow and so on. The creation of life diminishes and ultimately changes the creator. The dolls: The Firstborn, the Knife, the Poem, the Sorrow, the Innocent, the Celestial, and finally the Incarnate, are all trying to find their place. Not as humans, but as something else.
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''[[http://www.captainsupermarket.com/the-dollmaker.html The Dollmaker]]'' is a 2012 horror novel by Justin Robinson.
It centers around Stephen Monaghan, a genius who, unable to make a connection with a real woman, decides to make them instead: out of wood, porcelain, plastic, and glass. Each one takes a piece out of him, from his signature to his shadow and so on. The creation of life diminishes and ultimately changes the creator. The dolls: The Firstborn, the Knife, the Poem, the Sorrow, the Innocent, the Celestial, and finally the Incarnate, are all trying to find their place. Not as humans, but as something else.
It centers around Stephen Monaghan, a genius who, unable to make a connection with a real woman, decides to make them instead: out of wood, porcelain, plastic, and glass. Each one takes a piece out of him, from his signature to his shadow and so on. The creation of life diminishes and ultimately changes the creator. The dolls: The Firstborn, the Knife, the Poem, the Sorrow, the Innocent, the Celestial, and finally the Incarnate, are all trying to find their place. Not as humans, but as something else.
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* BiTheWay: The dolls seem to be bisexual, though it could be more a method of they find one another attractive, and aren't crazy about humans.
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''[[http://www.captainsupermarket.com/the-dollmaker.html The Dollmaker]]'' is a horror novel about Stephen Monaghan, a genius who, unable to make a connection with a real woman, decides to make them instead: out of wood, porcelain, plastic, and glass. Each one takes a piece out of him, from his signature to his shadow and so on. The creation of life diminishes and ultimately changes the creator. The dolls: The Firstborn, the Knife, the Poem, the Sorrow, the Innocent, the Celestial, and finally the Incarnate, are all trying to find their place. Not as humans, but as something else.
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''[[http://www.captainsupermarket.com/the-dollmaker.html The Dollmaker]]'' is a 2012 horror novel about by Justin Robinson. It centers around Stephen Monaghan, a genius who, unable to make a connection with a real woman, decides to make them instead: out of wood, porcelain, plastic, and glass. Each one takes a piece out of him, from his signature to his shadow and so on. The creation of life diminishes and ultimately changes the creator. The dolls: The Firstborn, the Knife, the Poem, the Sorrow, the Innocent, the Celestial, and finally the Incarnate, are all trying to find their place. Not as humans, but as something else.
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Not to be confused with Harriette Arnow's 1954 novel of the same name, or its 1984 MadeForTVMovie adaptation starring Creator/JaneFonda.
Not to be confused with Harriette Arnow's 1954 novel of the same name, or its 1984 MadeForTVMovie adaptation starring Creator/JaneFonda.
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* UncannyValley: A lot of the horror of the book comes from this. The dolls look human (to varying degrees), but they are consistently described as ''other'', with alien thought processes and often baffling actions.
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* {{Gayngst}}: Emily, Stephen's sister, is a lesbian whose disastrous first relationship made her reject her sexuality. She ends up married to a man who likes watching her with other men.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: Brian's whole gang and their sick trophies.]]
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: Brian's whole gang and their sick trophies.]]]]
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* AutoErotica: Stephen and Jessica consummate their relationship in a car. It's the only time in the book he successfully has sex with a human woman.
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* CuteAndPsycho: The Poem is a tiny and beautiful woman. She's also a horrifying sociopath.
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''[[http://www.captainsupermarket.com/the-dollmaker.html The Dollmaker Dollmaker]]'' is a horror novel about Stephen Monaghan, a genius who, unable to make a connection with a real woman, decides to make them instead: out of wood, porcelain, plastic, and glass. Each one takes a piece out of him, from his signature to his shadow and so on. The creation of life diminishes and ultimately changes the creator. The dolls: The Firstborn, the Knife, the Poem, the Sorrow, the Innocent, the Celestial, and finally the Incarnate, are all trying to find their place. Not as humans, but as something else.
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The Dollmaker is a horror novel about Stephen Monaghan, a genius who, unable to make a connection with a real woman, decides to make them instead: out of wood, porcelain, plastic, and glass. Each one takes a piece out of him, from his signature to his shadow and so on. The creation of life diminishes and ultimately changes the creator.
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The Dollmaker is a horror novel about Stephen Monaghan, a genius who, unable to make a connection with a real woman, decides to make them instead: out of wood, porcelain, plastic, and glass. Each one takes a piece out of him, from his signature to his shadow and so on. The creation of life diminishes and ultimately changes the creator.
creator. The dolls: The Firstborn, the Knife, the Poem, the Sorrow, the Innocent, the Celestial, and finally the Incarnate, are all trying to find their place. Not as humans, but as something else.
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* BecomeARealBoy: Subverted, as the dolls have no desire to become human. They want to be their own thing, whatever that might be.
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* HellishPupils: The Knife has decidedly odd eyes with pupils that look more like hourglasses. They're inhuman enough so that she needs sunglasses to leave the house.
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The Dollmaker is the story of Stephen Monaghan, a gensius who, unable to make a connection with a real woman, decides to make them instead: out of wood, porcelain, plastic, and glass. Each one takes a piece out of him, from his signature to his shadow and so on. The creation of life diminishes and ultimately changes the creator. The Dollmaker is a horror novel.
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The Dollmaker is the story of a horror novel about Stephen Monaghan, a gensius genius who, unable to make a connection with a real woman, decides to make them instead: out of wood, porcelain, plastic, and glass. Each one takes a piece out of him, from his signature to his shadow and so on. The creation of life diminishes and ultimately changes the creator. The Dollmaker is a horror novel.
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The Dollmaker is the story of Stephen Monaghan, a gensius who, unable to make a connection with a real woman, decides to make them instead: out of wood, porcelain, plastic, and glass. Each one takes a piece out of him, from his signature to his shadow and so on. The creation of life diminishes and ultimately changes the creator.
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The Dollmaker is the story of Stephen Monaghan, a gensius who, unable to make a connection with a real woman, decides to make them instead: out of wood, porcelain, plastic, and glass. Each one takes a piece out of him, from his signature to his shadow and so on. The creation of life diminishes and ultimately changes the creator.
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* BiTheWay: The dolls seem to be bisexual, though it could be more a method of they find one another attractive, and aren't crazy about humans.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The dolls see murder as permissible under certain circumstances, some of which would make sense to a normal person, others which are just odd.
* BodyHorror: So much of this. As Stephen's body changes, his body becomes like plastic and he bleeds something very much like breast milk.
* CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen: Pretty much the whole point of the book.
* FriendlyEnemy: [[spoiler: Brian and Stephen were best friends until the moment when Stephen put Brian on his ultimate path and refused to follow him. Their friendship continued, though it was sick from that moment on.]]
* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Stephen's ultimate fate is to be reincarnated into the body of a doll, a female person, with all his flaws excised.]]
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The dolls do a few things that are monstrous, but the true monster is [[spoiler: Brian.]]
* MechanicalLifeforms: The dolls themselves.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: Brian's whole gang and their sick trophies.]]
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!! This title provides examples of:
* BiTheWay: The dolls seem to be bisexual, though it could be more a method of they find one another attractive, and aren't crazy about humans.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The dolls see murder as permissible under certain circumstances, some of which would make sense to a normal person, others which are just odd.
* BodyHorror: So much of this. As Stephen's body changes, his body becomes like plastic and he bleeds something very much like breast milk.
* CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen: Pretty much the whole point of the book.
* FriendlyEnemy: [[spoiler: Brian and Stephen were best friends until the moment when Stephen put Brian on his ultimate path and refused to follow him. Their friendship continued, though it was sick from that moment on.]]
* GenderBender: [[spoiler: Stephen's ultimate fate is to be reincarnated into the body of a doll, a female person, with all his flaws excised.]]
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The dolls do a few things that are monstrous, but the true monster is [[spoiler: Brian.]]
* MechanicalLifeforms: The dolls themselves.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: Brian's whole gang and their sick trophies.]]
