The first 15 pages of Matt Coyle's brilliant "gothic-noir, murder-mystery, disguised as a children book" Worry Dolls, featuring murderous marionettes and grinning gollywogs traversing the fractured sanity of a worrying narrator.
Matt Coyle on the creation of Worry Dolls:
The characters in the book are all based on actual dolls that I have collected and I really just wanted to bring them to life. Originally the project started out as a children’s book but this didn't quite work out for me. However, the stage had been set, so to speak when I decided to turn it into a road movie type nightmare.
The original premise of the dolls being propelled into their adventure remained and allowed me to explore the idea of parodying a children's book. From then on the making of the story happened only 3 or 4 plates at a time. In lots of ways the story told itself, or the dolls told me the story. Please note that this is definitely not a children's book!
It isn't, but it's well worth checking out. This has been added to my Amazon wish list.
Worry Doll Preview [Mamtor.com] (via Coudal Partners)
