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...is an book from the fifties written by John Wall, who wrote under the pen name 'Sarban'. At first it is a rather ordinary tale of a school girl falling in love with the enigmatic heir of an old, neighboring estate. Then she discovers that he makes dolls, well, puppets, really, astonishingly lifelike puppets who seem to resemble people no longer alive. Just how he animates them, and what happens to the unlucky models of his art...at the time I first read it- I must have been fifteen or so- what fascinated me, predictably, was how in the world he fashioned the joints. Later on- but that's another story. Outside his studio he had fashioned a miniature wood of dwarf oak trees as a setting for his puppets, hence this picture which takes great liberties with the novel's plot

Description
...is an book from the fifties written by John Wall, who wrote under the pen name 'Sarban'. At first it is a rather ordinary tale of a school girl falling in love with the enigmatic heir of an old, neighboring estate. Then she discovers that he makes dolls, well, puppets, really, astonishingly lifelike puppets who seem to resemble people no longer alive. Just how he animates them, and what happens to the unlucky models of his art...at the time I first read it- I must have been fifteen or so- what fascinated me, predictably, was how in the world he fashioned the joints. Later on- but that's another story. Outside his studio he had fashioned a miniature wood of dwarf oak trees as a setting for his puppets, hence this picture which takes great liberties with the novel's plot