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The Doll Who Ate His Mother

(1976)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
World Fantasy Best Novel (nominee)
A woman's car hits a lamp-post and her brother loses his arm in the crash, literally. She then finds a nightmare unleashed in Liverpool, with overtones of witchcraft, possession and cannibalism.


Genre: Horror

Praise for this book

"It's superb. Grand Guignol in the grand manner. This is the chilling best!" - Robert Bloch

"The climax of the hunt is one of the most effective sequences in modern horror fiction." - Stephen King

"At once beautiful, shocking and thoroughly terrifying: we see and hear, we smell and feel the acid stench and spider touch of fear. An outstanding achievement." - Fritz Leiber


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