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Elizabeth - hand-crafted unique dolls & more
@elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social
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Australian mixed media artist & author who is inspired by Ghost/Gothic/Vintage culture and creates strange characters. "There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness" - Edgar Allan Poe
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Elizabeth - hand-crafted unique dolls & more @elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social · Sep 29
This is Agatha Whisper, a Victorian Spiritual Medium. From a young age she has seen many things that others can not. Her different world view has kept her isolated from her peers, she is known as an 'Old Soul'. 👻🔮🕯️
Photo of a brick wall, with draped netting and faux greenery. In front is a vase of flowers, netting on table with faux greenery and ghost lights. On the table is a fancy dressed doll. Black and white photo of a doll looking u, with cheesecloth coming out of her mouth, and feathers on top of her head. Dark photo of a doll looking up, cheesecloth coming out of her mouth, a father headdress on top of her head. Nearby are some faux greenery, and black netting behind her. Very dark photo of a doll standing in front of a brick wall, with cheesecloth coming out of her mouth, her eyes glowing in the dark.
elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social
I made this Nosferatu doll back in 2018. He was adopted by a twelve year old boy who was collecting classic horror characters. He spent his birthday money to buy it. I too was a collector of horror at that age, was happy to see it go to good home. #nosferatu #horrordoll #horrorart
Photo of Nosferatu doll standing on a red carpet in front of a black and white frame.
November 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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A doll of Alice Cooper I made a few years ago, inspired by his performance of Welcome To My Nightmare on The Muppet Show. #alicecooper #ooakdoll #artdoll
Doll of Alice Cooper standing in front of faux tombstone.
November 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Bot Name: Heru
Bot Number: 20251976

Head: driftwood found in Arizona
Eyes: part from typewriter, nail cap, sewing button, plastic gear
Body: rock found in Arizona
Feet: copper plumbing pipe

#desertartbot #craftedfromnature #rockandwoodart #industrialmeetsorganic #artisanbots #upcycledsculpture
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Mixed Media Mini Painting 'The Blue House' and a few other bits and bobs are in my shop now.
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#originalart #folkart #miniaturepainting #quirkythings #handmade #supportlocal #handmadeinAustralia #artsky
November 14, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Join me and @grumpyandrew.bsky.social as we pass each other the runes and invoke Jacques Tourneur's NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1957) for the series-finale episode of The Thriller Cabinet Podcast.

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Illustrated poster for the 1957 film NIGHT OF THE DEMON. Against a stormy night sky, the head and shoulders of a demon dominates the image. His body is dark and shaggy, his ears and horns pointy, and his red-lipped mouth open, with a look of mad glee in his glowing eyes. At the bottom right, a man and woman cower in fear, looking upwards apprehensively...
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social
I love the game, 'Don't Starve' by Klei Entertainment, and made these dolls of 'Webster' and 'Wendy' -- Wendy has her sister 'Abigail' in plush form as a ghost. Still play Shipwrecked, should made some characters from that! #fanart #dontstarve #quirkydolls #feltplush
A fuzzy furred doll with a spider head and webbed beard stands on a wood disk, which is on a round grey felt mat. At the dolls feet is a sculpted spider egg. A doll stands beside a ghost shaped felt plush on a dark grey felt mat.
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social
I occasionally modify dolls for fun - here is a mod of Mezco's mega scale 'The Curse of La Ilorona'. She is now called Yvette and I wrote a little story of ghostly revenge for her. #ghost #doll #dollart
Photo of two dolls side by side. Doll on the right is how the doll looked before being modified. Doll on the right is after modification. Two photos of the same doll side by side. She is standing on a window ledge, netting curtain behind, with a view of a garden.
November 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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This is Violet Elemental - an experimental doll I made a few years back, inspired by my love of purple. I wanted to make her alien like. #artdoll #purple
Strange doll in purple colours standing in front of black background.
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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A doll inspired by Trial Captain Acerola from Pokemon Sun/Moon. I love Ghost Types. #pokemon #artdoll
Purple and blue doll standing on a table.
November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Just a little throwback to a sculpture I did of 'The Count' a few years bck. He was one of my favourite characters when I was a kid, doing the 'Batty Bat' made me giddy! #sculpture #textileart #art #thecount
Sculpture of The Count with faux tree, bats and greenry on a wood block. Beside him is more faux greenery and decorative plate on a wall.
November 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Coming this Wednesday to the Haunted UK Fiction podcast, a chilling story by S.C. Fisher titled Mother Never Liked Dead Things that sent a proper shiver down our spines!
November 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social
Just a little photoshoot with the three dolls I made in September and October. Making large dolls has been a wonderful challenge and I am proud of how these three have turned out. I used to fear sewing, especially using a machine, and now I enjoy making epic gowns! #artdoll #creepydoll #art
Three dolls, two on a stand and one below. The stand has various decorations on and around it - faux greenery, framed images, ghost shaped fairy lights, netting, doll couch and faux bird skeleton. There is a ledge in the brick wall that has a mirror, candle and glass ball on a red cloth. Two dolls on a stand. The stand has various decorations on and around it - faux greenery, netting, and faux bird skeleton. There is a ledge in the brick wall that has a mirror, candle and glass ball on a red cloth. One doll stands on the ground. There are various decorations around it - faux greenery, framed images, ghost shaped fairy lights, netting, doll couch, palmistry hand, glass botte and a faux crystal ball.
November 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Bot Name: Oswaldo
Bot Number: 20251970

Head: drift wood found in Arizona
Eyes: sewing buttons
Body: rock found in Arizona
Feet: typewriter keys 
#makersgonnamake #artcollector #ecofriendlyart #reclaimedmaterials #robotcreation #botartist #typewriterkeys  #modernfolkart #robotlover #oneofakindbot
November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social
This is my latest creation, a ghost who was once known as Lillian Ennui. Lillian has been haunting her family estate for so long, that the inhabitants have grown used to her, so she drifts listlessly and without purpose. A rather melancholy afterlife.
A scene set up before a brick wall. A ghost doll sits amongst a grave, a candle and various faux flora, on a stand that has ghost lights and faux flora. There are assorted frames, a vase with faux flowers, a skull with faux flowers, a doll couch and a halloween crystal ball at the base. On a ledge above is a tall mirror, a candle, a crystal ball with a red cloth and more faux greenery. A scene set up before a brick wall. A ghost doll sits amongst a grave, a faux glow in the dark bird skeleton and various faux flora, on a stand that has ghost lights and faux flora. A scene set up before a brick wall. A ghost doll sits amongst a grave, a faux glow in the dark bird skeleton and various faux flora. A close up of a ghost doll that sits amongst a grave and various faux flora.
October 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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johnnyrestall.bsky.social
Next month on The Thriller Cabinet Podcast:

"It's in the trees! It's coming!"
A black and white photographic image of a woodland by night. In the centre of the image, striding towards the camera, is an enormous creature backlit by light and smoke. It's a little too far away to see clearly, but seems to have horns, possibly wings too, and definitely looks malevolent...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The Big Top.
A Willerby Story produced by @hauntedukfiction.bsky.social
A magic circus that travels between universes on a steam train.
Available wherever you get your podcasts.
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S01 - Episode 05 - The Big Top by Willerby
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October 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social
First up is Ghost Stories from 2017, by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman. Made this doll inspired by the first segment of the film in 2020.
Then, we have the French series Marianne from 2019 by Samuel Bodin. Made this doll in 2020. #horror #art
Creepy doll in a yellow dress sitting on wood floorboards, up against railing with torchlight on her. Creepy doll hanging on a glass door, with a long black dress in tatters.
October 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The other three Halloween sculptures that I made back in 2023, inspired by Ghosts, Pumpkin Fields and Trick or Treating! #sculpture #halloween #art
Sculpture of a head with a ghost on top of it, sitting on a orange and black wood base. Black background. Sculpture of a head with a pumpkin field on top of it, sitting on a orange and black wood base. Black background. Sculpture of a head with a black cat and candy on top of it, sitting on a orange and black wood base. Black background.
October 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Out tomorrow! @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social joins me on the latest episode of the Boxing Movie Podcast to discuss Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes (1998), starring Nicolas Cage. Don't miss it!
#boxing #moviesky #filmsky
October 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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To celebrate its 1st anniversary, the Kindle edition of my book, Nursery Crimes, is free on all Amazon marketplaces until Halloween. Please download and leave a review. www.amazon.com/Nursery-Crim...
#Absurdpoetry #Frenchillustration #surrealpoetry #Englisheccentricity #poetry #funnypoetry
Nursery Crimes: Darkly Comic Rhymes for Grown-Ups and Other Mischievous Souls
Nursery Crimes: Darkly Comic Rhymes for Grown-Ups and Other Mischievous Souls - Kindle edition by Brooks, Andi, Grasser Rifi Saidi, Aurélie . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Nursery Crimes: Darkly Comic Rhymes for Grown-Ups and Other Mischievous Souls.
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October 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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This is 'Graveyard Gary', a little diorama sculpture I made back in 2023. He sits on a handpainted wood coaster. I made a doll version of him in 2024 as I loved making such a decorative head! #art #creepyart #horror #halloween
Sculpture of a grinning face, with a tombstone on top, sitting on a black and orange wood coaster. Black background.
October 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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First Halloweek mini movie marathon completed
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October 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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johnnyrestall.bsky.social
As Sherlock-Holmes-vs-Jack-The-Ripper film A STUDY IN TERROR (1965) was released 60 years ago this month, here's my piece for Rue Morgue comparing & contrasting it with Bob Clark's similarly-themed MURDER BY DECREE (1979):

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Cartoon-style poster for 'A Study In Terror.' Sherlock Holmes is the central image in deerstalker and dark overcoat, standing with gun raised and a quizzical but determined look on his face. Around him, cartoon-strip sound-effect bubbles says things like 'Biff!' and 'Crunch!'. At the bottom left of the image is a screaming damsel in distress, hair flying and dress low cut. Illustrated poster for 'Murder by Decree.' Along the left-hand side of the poster are assorted profile sketches of the characters in the film, emerging from surrounding shadows and headed by Christopher Plummer's Sherlock Holmes. To the right, a sinister figure slashes downwards with an extremely long knife, looming over a drawing of a cobbled street showing dark figures fleeing from a pursuing handsome cab. The film's title is blood red, stamped in the style of an old-fashioned wax seal.
October 26, 2025 at 9:54 AM
elizabethdollmaker.bsky.social
I was inspired to make this (over a meter tall) La Catrina soft sculpture/doll after attending a Latin American festival, where I saw a woman dressed as her throwing marigolds to the crowd. The gown is red satin wiith hand painted details. #dayofthedead #catrina #art #artdoll
Photo of a tall skeleton lady, with graves, skulls and faux flora around her. In the background is a grey curtain.
October 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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This PEANUTS comic strip was published #OTD on October 24, 1998.
October 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM