THE HORROR ARCHIVES · Vol. 005The DollhouseSome toys were never meant to be loved.

Porcelain, wax, rags, clockwork and paper: ten dollhouse worlds of uncanny toys and miniature nightmares, drawn as open line art for you to color.

Planned

Planned. No edition, price or release date is set.

Front cover of THE HORROR ARCHIVES Vol. 005, The Dollhouse: an open Victorian dollhouse with tiny lit rooms and a figure in an upper window, puppet strings hanging from above, and a cracked porcelain doll in a lace bonnet among red roses in the foreground. Pink title lettering.

The fifth volume of THE HORROR ARCHIVES is a universe of ten doll worlds, each with its own materials, rules and residents, with six scenes per world. Not flesh puppets this time, but toys, miniature societies and things that only look like dolls.

The Dollhouse is planned, not released. Its release details, format and price are not set yet.

The books contain gothic, creature, body and splatter horror imagery. They are not made for children.

Series
THE HORROR ARCHIVES
Volume
005
Status
Planned
Planned contents
10 worlds, 6 motifs each (60 motifs)

Covers

Front cover of THE HORROR ARCHIVES Vol. 005, The Dollhouse: an open Victorian dollhouse with tiny lit rooms and a figure in an upper window, puppet strings hanging from above, and a cracked porcelain doll in a lace bonnet among red roses in the foreground. Pink title lettering.
Front cover
Back cover of Vol. 005, The Dollhouse. Yellow dripping headline: "Every little room is waiting for you." Text: "The house is empty, but the dolls keep moving. Look through the miniature windows and discover who has been arranging the rooms." Taglines: porcelain watchers, miniature rooms, silent games. Artwork: an open Victorian dollhouse hung on puppet strings from a giant hand, a doll peering from the attic, and a cracked porcelain doll among red roses in front.
Back cover

Contents

Working contents from the story bible. Titles and order may change before release.

  1. The Porcelain Dominion

    A miniature city of flawless porcelain dolls hiding teeth, shards and ruined bodies behind their faces

  2. The Wax Family Estate

    Life-size wax figures melt every night and set each morning into new, misshapen relatives

  3. The Ragmother's Nursery

    A giant rag mother stuffs human remains into creatures of scraps, hair and filthy wadding

  4. The Clockwork Dinner Party

    Wind-up dolls hold banquets where their gears take human bodies apart

  5. The Paper People

    A city of flat paper dolls folding into razor shapes and pulling people between the pages

  6. The Button-Eyed Colony

    Underground cloth dolls with huge button eyes whose faces open along the seams into mouths

  7. The Cracked China Ballroom

    Broken china dancers rebuild themselves from other dolls' shards into grotesque sculptures

  8. The Music Box Kingdom

    A kingdom inside a music box that moves only while the tune plays and melts into the gears when it stops

  9. The Cabinet of Glass Eyes

    Antique dolls whose glass eyes live on their own, and eye-creatures growing behind the vitrine

  10. The House Inside the House

    Every room holds a smaller house, and the residents learn they are figures inside the biggest doll of all

Editions

There is nothing to buy yet. Digital, print and any other editions will be listed here with format, price and where you pay, once each one is real.

Sample pages will be shown here once they are approved for publication.