The Doll

by Josh Webster

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082171788X
• ISBN13: 9780821717882
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Zebra Books
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not Your Typical Bad Dollie

The Doll is a simply nasty little tale involving a pair of twins, Gretchen and Mary. After their parents divorce, the gap between the girls' personalities--Mary the kindly extrovert, and Gretchen the malcontent--seem to widen. Gretchen spends more and more time confiding in her father's last gift, a beautiful doll who eeriely resembles the blond, blue-eyed twins. The doll, created by a Mexican dollmaker and bruja of great power, was created in order to grant a little girl's fondest wish, but Gretchen's only wish is to destroy her sister.The writing in this one is careful and direct, and the storyline a lovely, wicked twist on the whole good twin/bad twin and evil doll genre. Characters are drawn in broad and sometimes overly heavy strokes, but otherwise come across the page with wonderful individualism. The horror is not all supernatural: the sibling rivalry between Gretchen and Mary is often cruelly, painfully close to home, as is the nastiness of their parents' divorce, the panic of a narrowly averted non-custodial abduction, and the playground taunting against outcast Gretchen. Gretchen herself is a treat, coming across as both a lonely little girl and Rhoda from The Bad Seed. For a fan of the classic genre horror, it's definitely worth hunting for.

The Doll

The Doll by Josh Webster was an very entertaining book. It is about two twin girls named Gretchen and Mary. They lived with their divorced mother named Barbara. One day the twin's father sends the three of them gifts. He gave Gretchen a doll, Mary an apron that says momies little helper on it, and Barbara a tie. This is the end of my review and I hope you have enjoyed it.

The Doll Review

.The Doll by Josh Webster was a very entertaining book.It is about two twin girls who live with their mother who is devorsed. Their father sends them all gifts, and he gives Grethen a doll, Mary an apron, and their mother a tie. The doll becomes a very important part of Grethens life,and she figures out that the doll has powers that she can use to hurt her sister with without hurting her self. To sum it up Grethen dies, because she ran away, and freezed to death, then she takes her sisters body, and the doll maker makes hergive it back.to death,thenshe takes her sisters body,then the dollmaker makes her give it back.

Cabbage Patch Doll from Hell!

Well it's not your typical "evil doll" tale, where it becomes animated and starts chasing people around with sharp knives. (As the cover would have you believe) Rather the story focuses on ten year-old twin girls, one good and one evil, this IS still a horror story after all.The doll is manufactured in one of those Cabbage Patch hospitals reminiscent of the 80's. For some reason there is a separate division, this was a very weak part of the story, in which the "dollmaker" an Incan priestess, manufactures her own special dolls and imbues them with certain powers. They have the ability to achieve the owner's deepest desires. So before you can say "Chuckie Rules," the doll falls into the eager hands of the evil twin who uses it to make her sister's life miserable...even unto death!"The Doll" was such an enjoyable, quick read that I can forgive the underdeveloped "dollmaker" character.