The start of this six issue series was a little bit of a turn off. My previous brief exposure to Carey and been meh, so why should I continue with a story about a haunted or demon infested doll house? The reason is that over the course of the story Carey gives the readers reasons to become invested in Alice who goes from child to adult, and really seems to be the only who has figured out the doll house is a problem.The house's inhabitants do not have much character, but I really became invested

This was really good, a generations-spanning story about the influence of an evil alien/demon creature on the extended family of the man who was unfortunate enough to encounter it/her in an Irish cave. I've been a fan of Carey and Peter Gross ever since their work together on Lucifer and The Unwritten and they don't disappoint here. This is another engrossing, slow-burning story of the supernatural that takes some time to get into, but which will reward the patient reader in spades. Gross' art i...

Sublimely creepy, as all things Dollhouse are.

A demon takes up residence in a dollhouse; a place to hide, to thrive on the souls of those she beguiles. Each soul is another step to her freedom. Poor little Alice. She's next in line to inherit the dollhouse. From one generation to the next, the dollhouse consumes. Alice may not be the first, but she sure will make every attempt to be the last. Thanks to NetGalley, DC Black Label, and Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Vince Locke, and Chris Peter for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I wasn't quite sure what to rate this. I'm going to go middle ground on it.While an interesting concept, I thought the background story of the dollhouse was a confusing mess. Who was the rock-like creature in the cave that was always dormant? How exactly did creating a dollhouse out of (view spoiler)[placenta (hide spoiler)] bring this demon into existence? In my head, this book would have played out a lot different, perhaps not even going into the horror genre, but maybe dealing with some child...

One by one, go down, be weighed. Be weightless. Come up. Only one. Wow. I decided to read this volume of Joe Hill's HILL HOUSE COMICS line first, because I'm not at all a fan of Mike Carey's work, at least what I've read of it. I probably should have skipped this collection entirely, but the collector's mania takes over, and I've just gotta have EVERY volume. Joe Hill has never let me down, so I figured he had earned the right to ask me to take a chance of Mike Carey one more time. I'm glad tha

If all horror stories were like this, the world would be a better place.The art, the story, the plant-and-payoff, the characters, the DEPRESSION... all of it was soooooooooooo good. These are the horror stories i love and it's rare to find one that actually follows through. The only thing that would have made this better is if the explanation behind everything was dropped into the flashbacks - that would have made those scenes more engaging and would have absolved the exposition at the climax. T...

Though I enjoyed the story, I found the artwork to be derivative and disappointing. The book had the feeling of being slapped together in a hurry.

Out of all of the Hill House comics this was my favorite. Though honestly that's not saying much as the quality and my enjoyment of all of these series quickly declined after the first few issues. 😕Joe Hill described this as "The Indian in the Cupboard, if the enchanted cupboard was secretly a door to hell." And I have to say that's pretty accurate, at a basic level.I'm pulling this from my review of issue #1: I kind of want to mention a trigger warning, even though this is horror so it's kind o...

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.There are objects in life that tend to naturally convey an eerie atmosphere without much effort. Their mere design makes them terrifying as you pray that they don’t do something impossible, whether it’s to move around on their own or to suddenly talk to you. As part of the Hill House Comics line-up, writer Joe Hill reaches out to another well-known horror writer who has a gift to build unique worlds that make you wish that anything he shares rem...

Meh. M.R. Carey's work has been very hit-and-miss for me in the past, so I know to go into these sorts of things with cautious optimism, and sadly, this was a bit of a miss, too. The storyline is so incredibly jumpy and inconsistent — not to the point of being hard to follow, just to the point of being a bit irritating. I was only somewhat intrigued through most of it, but never fully drawn in, and by the end, it just felt like the beginning to a series I would never have any interest in continu...

An unexpectedly fantastic and well-woven story. An extremely strong plot and great character development despite the time jumps. It had a classic horror film feel to it and just worked so so well! I thought the ending was a bit too much of a "happily ever after" but considering how much the characters suffered I was actually rooting for them to come out of it happy.

4.5 Stars ⭐️ The artwork in between, etc, was awesome!! Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

Spooky dollhouse, gonna spook it up, spooking people over time because that’s what spooky dollhouses do! Boo! Spooky dollhouse! Mike Carey and Peter Gross, the creative team behind Vertigo’s Unwritten series, reunite for another terrible collaboration in The Dollhouse Family. What’s that stench? Oh, it’s another Hill House Comic! There’s really not much to this story though it sure takes its time plodding through its numerous pointless scenes. The book’s filled with either nasty one-dimensional

I graciously received a copy of this book for free from Netgalley.This was a really good follow up, albeit unrelated story--think American Horror Story, different every season--but it lacked a little something compared to the first. I found it a little confusing in parts, but I admit that by the second half I was hooked. The plot started off really strong, but then the pacing suffered a little due to puzzling flashbacks and world building. I think I would've preferred it to start with the past.

Oh, man... I was loving this book; absolutely loving it... it was genuinely scary, with a suspenseful plot and a broad scope, engaging characters and a perfect creepy, slow build... and then, at the very last moment, they screwed the dismount with a bullshit ‘timey-wimey’ cop-out ending! Until I read those last few pages I was totally giving this 5 stars. Oh, well... it was still a really good book.

I found this plodded along unlike other Carey and Gross collaborations. This is the story of a girl visited by a dollhouse filled with a family she can shrink down and visit. But there is something more menacing about the dollhouse as it continually tempts Alice. The storytelling moving through multiple times didn't really come together for me until the very end. Vince Locke's inks give Peter Gross's usually restrained and simple pencils a rugged, old-timey, vaguely oatmealy look. This was the r...

Oh holy shit... I wasn’t expecting something this good.What’s it about?So this girl gets an old dollhouse. She unfortunately has a mother and father who constantly fight, the father is even abusive. Eventually the girl discovers she can use a spell to shrink herself into the dollhouse and her dolls are actually real people... unfortunately all is more sinister than it seems and things get darker and weirder as her life and the story go on!Why it gets 5-stars:The story is very good. It is dark an...

A real creepy book about a girl going into a dollhouse but the background is obviously a lot darker. After witnessing her father being abusive to her mother, Alice goes into a dollhouse given to her by her grandma. She meets the nice folks inside except for the "Black Evil Room" which basically is a demon fucking with her and wanting to make a deal/pact. Alice tells her to fuck off and then of course the demon is super pissed and spends the rest of the time messing with Alice through her kid/tee...

A little slow to start, but by the time all the elements sprawled throughout history started to come together in the final chapters, I was hooked. But I'm not in love with the last two pages. And I think I would have enjoyed it more if Carey had hewed closer to his original pitch included in the end matter.