Dollface
- Judith D Collins
- Sep 1
- 3 min read
By: Lindy Ryan
ISBN: 9781250888914
Publisher: St. Martin's Press | Minotaur Books
Publication Date: 02/24/2026
Format: Other
My Rating: TBR (ARC)
Barbie meets Scream with a 90s nostalgia twist in this horror romp from Bless Your Heart author Lindy Ryan.
Horror author Jill has just moved to suburban New Jersey, hoping to fit in with the new PTA moms and maybe not weird everyone out with her Final Girl coffee mug. You know. Make some real friends.
But then a plastic face-masked serial killer begins slashing their way through town, one overly made-up mom at a time. The police are incredulous. The moms are indignant. And Jill is slowly wrapped into a killer’s murderous spree, until she might just be the last woman standing.
A delightfully murderous novel that is equal parts scathing and salacious, Dollface will win you over with its gossip and gore, one body at a time.
“A whimsical, bloody, unsettling suburban slasher with an unexpected twist." – New York Times bestselling author Delilah S. Dawson.
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Praise
“A whimsical, bloody, unsettling suburban slasher with an unexpected twist that will hit way too close to home for any mom who'd rather face a serial killer than a PTA meeting. I connected to the final girl on a molecular level!”
―Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of Bloom and It Will Only Hurt For a Moment
"Dollface is Stepford meets Stephen King―sharp and sinister in all the best ways. A twisted joy for horror fans."
―James "Murr" Murray and Darren Wearmouth, bestselling co-authors of The Stowaway and You Better Watch Out
"A twisty, gory homage to the slasher, with a horror writer heroine who's just a little too knowledgeable about genre tropes...Dollface is a whole lot of bloody fun."
―Christina Henry, author of Alice and The Place Where They Buried Your Heart
"Lindy Ryan's suburban giallo goes for the gullet, then slices right through. Dollface stands proudly within the new slasher canon alongside the works of Stephen Graham Jones and Brian McAuley, finding fresh weapons to render the reader's imagination into the reddest of ribbons." ―Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
About the Author
Lindy Ryan is an award-winning author, anthologist, and short-film director whose books and anthologies have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist and Library Journal. She also writes sweet, seasonal romance under the pseudonym Lindy Miller. Several of her projects have been adapted for screen.
Ryan is the current author-in-residence at Rue Morgue and a columnist at BookTrib. Declared a “champion for women’s voices in horror” by Shelf Awareness, Ryan was named a Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree in 2020, and in 2022, she was named one of horror's most masterful anthology curators. She previously served on the Board of Directors for the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) and currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Brothers Grimm Society of North America.
She is an award-winning professor at Rutgers University, and a guest faculty mentor in Western Connecticut State University's Creative Writing MFA program. Prior to her career in academia, Ryan co-founded Radiant Advisors, a business intelligence research and advisory firm, where she led the company's research and data enablement practice for clients including 21st Century Fox Films, Warner Bros., and Disney. Ryan founded Black Spot Books, a specialty press focused on amplifying women's voices in horror, in 2017, which was acquired as an imprint of Vesuvian Media Group in 2019.
Born and raised in Southeast Texas, Ryan currently resides on the East Coast. WEBSITE
