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Ok, today we’re going to review a story called The Doll, by J. C. Martin. As you might have guessed, it’s a haunted doll horror story. But it’s also so much more. I chose this book because of it’s vivid imagery, an actual location and twisted local legend.
It starts in a real-life place. The island of the dolls in Mexico. Now if you don’t know this place, I’m going to tell you how creepy it is. Basically, a young girl drowned the creek and was discovered by the man who lived on the island. To pay homage to her, he collected dolls in all conditions and hung them from the trees and all over the island before drowning in the creek himself.
That’s the actual legend.
In the story, a woman and her daughter are visiting in the island of the dolls. The mom thinks the place is creepy while the daughter is entranced by all the dolls. Naturally as always happens in these types of stories, the daughter sneaks a doll home and then the weirdness starts to happen.
The mom uses the internet to research the things she needed to know, like finding out that story.
The details in this book are amazing.
Through this book, you actually feel like you did travel to Mexico and saw the island of the dolls yourself. When she brings the modern world into it via the internet, something very few stories do even today, you feel like this could actually happen.
Well, if we lived in a world of haunted dolls.
It’s the powerfully described imagery of the places, the websites, the locations, that make you feel like you actually went. This type of imagery is rare in modern books, because we can pretty much see everything through TV and the internet, so many authors don’t bother.
If you want to see how to weave a story around and existing legend, then this is the book you need to read.
