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This new edition of An Emporium of Automata delivers a thesis of the theatrically strange placing in the hands of all seekers after the beautiful and weird a grand collection which, for so long, has been privy to the locked bookcases of collectors and connoisseurs of the macabre and fantastique. Story after uncanny story unfolds before the reader, a maze of carnival mirrors that we fear we might never escape from. Here are missing tales from s...

There has existed all through the Ages an extraordinary idea that puppets are inanimate creatures controlled by human beings, but after spending some years behind the scenes in manipulating the strings of marionettes I am well assured that the position is quite the reverse, and that a puppet-showman is entirely at the mercy of his figures." - Walter Wilkinson, "The Peep Show" 1933. I can think of no better quotation that sets the stage for thi...

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