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The Dutch Doll

About Me

Philip Snow appeared on Haunted Voices Radio on Friday 11 November 2007 - Listen again by downloading the show - go to the HVRN website and find it through archives / November 07 - or use this address - http://www.hauntedvoicesradio.com/modules.php?name=Content&a mp;pa=showpage&pid=28
The Dutch Doll has been released.
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An old, waist-high Dutch Doll is stolen from a village church. Its theft reopens old wounds and uncovers local folklore. Of how the doll was kept in the cellar of the Girl’s School, scene of a tragedy in the 1930’s and at the centre of ghostly rumours a century before. They say that the doll’s feet were cut off to stop it walking around. Only the narrator of the story and the vicar understand the forces at work; only they are on the doll’s trail. Based on a true story.
The real Dutch Doll is still at large.
This is Philip Snow’s first novel.
enid blyton vs. bram stoker
Cover art by my favourite Sardinian, Dani "undead" Serra [http://www.myspace.com/multigrade]

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Paul Klee, Stan Laurel, Henry Fonda, David J, Heathcote Williams, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Alexander Solshenitsyn, Valaida Snow, Nickolai Gogol, Byron, Kelly, Sheets, the whole Naples crowd.

My Blog

Dutch Doll Stolen - Press Cuttings

Here are cuttings from the local newspaper reporting the theft of the Dutch Doll in 1981.  The doll has not been seen since; we don't know what became of the theives either.....
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:32:00 GMT

Dutch Doll Inspiration

This is an excerpt from the 1942 history "The Pageant ......." by Reginald Underwood.  It tells the story of the 1824 haunting of the Girl's School, which inspired a poem by Thomas Dexter.  ...
Posted by on Mon, 28 May 2007 05:56:00 GMT

The Dutch Doll - Chapter 1

"The goods were all moved from the house, The children sleep away"   Moving silently, without resistance, across wet red clay. The merest hint of dawn touched the far hedgerows. The steeple, ret...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:05:00 GMT

Thomas Welch & Caroline Hunt

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OFTHOMAS WELCH HUNT, ESQRLATE PROPRIETOR OF THE ESTATE AND MANOR OF WADENHOEAND OF CAROLINE HIS WIFE;ELDEST DAUGHTER OF THE REVD CHARLES EUSEBY ISHAMRECTOR OF POLEBROOKE IN THIS ...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:32:00 GMT

John, Ethelwyn & Anne Tynan

  HERE WAS BURIED THE MORTAL BODY OF JOHN TYNAN WHO WAS LOVABLE BRILLIANT AND OF INTEGRITY OF MIND BORN 9 OCT 1893 DIED 29 MARCH 1949 What's easier, I wonder: to be called a good man or great. I...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:29:00 GMT

Ada Maud Jarvis and five of her sons

  TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF FIVE BROTHERS LEWIS WYNDHAM JARVIS Canadian Infantry. Aged 38 JAMES HENRY JARVIS Canadian Engineers. Aged 37 CECIL JARVIS DSO, M.C. Major. Deccan Horse. Aged 35 HUGH ...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:24:00 GMT

Philip Pateman

[Mother was Mary Jane, died June 7, 1929, aged 29 : Father was Percy Eric] Also PHILIP ALAN PATEMAN THE DEARLY LOVED SON OF THE ABOVE WHO WAS DROWNED AT SKEGNESS   SEPT. 19, 1931   AGED 7...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:17:00 GMT

Christmas Day

On the road to the Isle of Ely lies Christmas Day, dead and buried. A state often dreamt of by those who rail against the excess, the gluttony, the expense of the occasion. Except it is not yuletide ...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:15:00 GMT

Dame Mary Page

HERE LYES DAME MARY PAGE RELICT OF SIR GREGORY PAGE BART THE DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH 4 1728 IN THE 56TH YEAR OF HER AGE   IN 67 MONTHS SHE WAS TAPD 66 TIMES   HAd TAKEN AWAY 240 GALLONS O...
Posted by on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:04:00 GMT