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Maybe it's because this is so different from (and not racist like) most of the other stories in my collection, but I thought this one was particularly well done and even kinda spooky.4/5 stars
Audio book on Classic Tales podcast. Short, eerie tale for after work evening in traffic.
I really like the story’s strong, humorous opening, in which the spoiled six-year-old Lady Gwendolen drops her doll Nina down a marble staircase, breaking it. She doesn’t seem all that upset for very long.Luckily Mr. Puckler the doll doctor is there to make Nina better again. Mr. Puckler loves his job and the dolls that he repairs, but he loves his daughter Else more. He develops a special fondness for Nina, perhaps because she reminds him a little of Else.
Wonderful entertaining listening 🎧Another will written family short story of love and caring by F. Marion Crawford about a doll getting broken and taken to the doll doctor. The doll is repaired and the daughter takes the doll back to it's owner but does not arrive. Why? The doll ghost will lead the way! I highly recommend this novella to reader of fantasy, horror and ghosts 👻. Enjoy reading and listening to books. 2022
I’m biased, but this was the scariest story I read in my first ever collection of Ghost Stories aged 7. The shivers are still real. Not lost it’s power in my reread
Update, 10/24/18:Moving this over here since Goodreads now has a spot for it.Read in The Complete Wandering Ghosts Original review, 10/21/14:I don't reckon I have any kind of doll phobia, but I do find many of them to be a tad bit creepy. Seriously, why would anybody EVER have this thing just sitting around the house? Even if it didn't get up, start fires, and kill people. Even if it just sat there immobile forever. This thing is just too fucked-up looking to be allowed.Since this is another
Short story of the doll broken and repaired by the doll doctor. Less scary than haunting.
I think this story shows Crawford as something of a remarkable writer--it is a story that shows his virtuosity in writing. In the main, this story is deeply emotional, scary, and humorous (the latter two are technically emotions, but I mean "deeply emotional" in the sense that great sadness and great happiness are elicited therefrom). The story opens comedically when all the servants of the house mistake a broken doll for a dead child, and, wonder of wonders!, appear visible in the house they wo...
Listened to this on The Classic Tales Podcast. It was enjoyable and a nice way to help work go by. It did have an interesting plot twist but felt on par with Marion’s other stories - which try hard to be eerie but don’t do much for me. I am pretty into horror though so perhaps I’m just desensitized. It seems like it would be a great read for a young, budding horror reader though. I think I would’ve enjoyed this as a complement to something like Scary Stories.
Unnerving and emotional. A doll "doctor" sends his daughter out into the London streets to make an evening delivery, but doesn't come home. As a parent, I found it extremely unsettling. As a lover of ghost stories, I found it beautiful.
Creepy little story! Pitter, patter!
The surprise about this doll's appearance in a ghost story is its kindness rather than sadistic / psychopathic murderousness.
In Cranston House a beautiful doll named Nina is broken Lady Gwendolen. Can Mr Puckler, the doll doctor, mend the doll? What happens after Nina's deep gash is healed and Else (Puckler's daughter) tries to return the doll to its owner? Atmospheric story set in London with an uncanny doll and some spine tingling scenes. It's a classic tale with a doll that somehow comes to life. Quite liked the tale like story and can really recommend reading it. No slasher and no Chucky but a story full of refine...
As he turned the key in the lock, his heart stood still, for he knew that he was awake and not dreaming, and that he really heard those tiny footsteps pattering to meet him inside the house along the passage.another year, another three books in seth's ghost stories for christmas series.this is an unexpectedly heartwarming story of a father and his daughter and the creepy doll that reunites them. it opens with a GOTCHA that only works if you haven't read the synopsis, before redirecting the focus...
Starts of funny, and it ends up being a nice little ghost story!
“Something was following him in the dark. There was a small pattering, as of tiny feet upon the boards. He stopped and listened, and the roots of his hair tingled.”“The Doll’s Ghost” is about exactly what it sounds like and is among the very first to ever address the “haunted doll” trope in literature. The whole setting is so wonderfully crafted, the Victorian era has in itself a way of making the mundane feel sinister and when you add in a kindly be it creepy “doll doctor” who “falls in love” w...
A nice little classic ghost tale. I won't say that it is extremely scary. But at times it is creepy. However, I find the story really fascinating. In the initial phase, the narration has a funny interesting angle to the whole doll theme. There are points where I could not stop myself from giggling. Then the horror factor comes in. And finally, it gives way to an ending which is a tad emotional. In over all, I thoroughly enjoyed the story!
very cute :D i wasn’t really paying attention when i read it though oops
A lovely little story about what it says on the tin.
A creepy story with an unexpected ending. Listened to on Classic Tales podcast. http://classictales.libsyn.com/ep-546...
