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      The Manikin

      by Joanna Scott
      Published
      Feb 1996
      Main Genre
      Horror Horror
      Pages
      288
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      About This Book

      The Manikin is not a mannequin, but the curious estate of Henry Craxton, Sr. in a rural western New York State. Dubbed the "Henry Ford of Natural History," by 1917 Craxton has become America's preeminent taxidermist. Into this magic box of a world-filled with eerily inanimate gibbons and bats, owls and peacocks, quetzals and crocodiles-wanders young Peg Griswood, daughter of Craxton's newest housekeeper. Part coming-of-age story, part gothic mystery, and part exploration of the intimate embrace between art and life, Joanna Scott's The Manikin is compulsively readable and beautifully written.

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      Speculative Fiction

      Subgenres

      Historical Horror

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      Feb 1998 Henry Holt ISBN13 9780805055917 ISBN10 0805055916
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      Dec 2002 Picador ISBN13 9780312421380 ISBN10 0312421389
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      First Edition Feb 1996 Back Bay ISBN13 9780805039740 ISBN10 0805039740
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      Sep 2015 Picador ISBN13 9781250096500 ISBN10 1250096502
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      Sep 2015 Picador ISBN10 B013P2QVT8
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