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Alex Bell has published bestselling novels and short stories for both adults and young adults including Frozen Charlotte, a Zoella Book Club pick. This is pretty remarkable, considering the near-universal belief that this time period was the origin of the dolls’ name. To that end she eagerly started a Law Degree only to find it so boring that she was at a very real risk of going completely insane.that described a woman who froze to death while traveling 20 miles in a sleigh to a New Year’s ball. I think that you should always be aiming to scare yourself when writing horror, or else you can’t really hope to scare your readers – which is what we all want from a good horror story!

An 1844 print of a well-dressed young woman who would have resembled Charlotte (left), a print of a horse-drawn sleigh published in 1853 (upper right) and several Frozen Charlotte dolls (lower right) found by the author. Then Jemima receives a box of Frozen Charlotte dolls from a mystery sender and she begins to remember - a seance with the dolls, a violent argument with her step-father and the inferno that destroyed their home.This is real horror writing for me - it doesn't rely on blood and gore, but on an increasing sense of unease and the sort of sinister happenings that make you want to check over your shoulder and keep the light on. In this young adult horror novel, a girl staying on a remote island suspects the tiny Victoria-era dolls in her family’s old mansion are up to murder. This second instalment sees us back in 1910, so that we can investigate the origin story of these murderous dolls. The abrupt ending may irritate some, but slasher fans will nevertheless enjoy trying to figure out who the menacing person hiding behind a mask is. Alex began writing novels whilst studying for a law degree, completing six novels during university and another one during her summer holidays which went on to gain a publishing deal.