It notes that 'The Doll Maker' is Sarban’s most intriguing work, and that Niall Sterne 'offers no ordinary seduction, and there is a delicate horror in his beautiful, sterile doll-world, the antithesis of life itself.'. First published in , ‘The Doll Maker’ appears with ‘The Trespassers’, and ‘A House of Call’. more/5. · It is here that she encounters the charismatic and mysterious Niall Sterne, the Doll Maker of the title. This is a subtle, intelligent and compelling tale of horror. The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural describes Sarban's stories as nicely written, with solid characterizations, convincingly detailed backgrounds and a fine sense of pacing and atmosphere. The final story, 'The Doll Maker' (), is maybe the weakest of the three but is still an unsettling tale of supernatural control. Please note though that while all three novellas were sometimes reprinted with Sarban's short stories, this omnibus only reprints the novellas themselves.4/5(5).
Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif; The Doll Maker: Sarban: Ballantine Books. The Doll Maker by Sarban. by Sarban. NOOK Book (eBook) $ He published three novels under the name Sarban in the early s, after which his literary efforts largely ceased. His most well known work is the science fiction/alternate history classic THE SOUND OF HIS HORN, first published in The Nazi Doll Maker The Sound of His Horn by 'Sarban' is a classic of the 'if the Nazis had won' theme. Its vision of a forest in which cat women and other human-animal hybrids are hunted for game by bland fascist gauleiters has rightly earned it a strong reputation.
‘Sarban’s’ “ third and last published book, The Doll Maker, which was published with two other stories, tells of a young woman staying on at her old boarding school, who befriends and is soon entranced by a mysterious neighbour. The quiet and opaline wonder of an English winter; the snug charm of an old country house; the appealing freshness of a young, gentle heroine; hints of sinister mystery, of sorcery from far lands and ancient sources; an engagingly enigmatic and magnetic. John William Wall (6 November – 11 April ), pen name Sarban, was a British writer and diplomat. Wall's diplomatic career lasted more than thirty years, but his writing career as Sarban was brief and not prolific, ending during the early s. Sarban is described in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy as "a subtle, literate teller of tales. The title story tells the tale of Clare Lydgate, a young woman studying at boarding school for her Oxford scholarship examinations. In the evenings, she escapes the school grounds by climbing over the wall of Brackenbine Hall. It is here that she encounters the charismatic and mysterious Niall Sterne, the Doll Maker.
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