The novel, also known to our readers under the title “The Devil's Dolls of Madame Mendylippe,” begins with a strange visit by Ricori, the head of a gangster syndicate, to Dr. Lowell, a neurosurgeon. A whole series of strange deaths turn out to be a terrible trace of a witch who has settled in the city, who creates small copies of living people and transfers the souls of the originals into them. Lowell and Ricori begin a secret war with creepy dolls and their creator... © Sergey Berezhnoy