Step this way folks, into a carnival atmosphere of human oddity and depravity, inexplicable beauty in the strangest places, ironic affections, and betrayal. Thrill to to sight of some of the world’s most exquisite dolls. Chills to the very bone!
The world is full of unlikely monsters and unbelievable saints, and stories, like this one, that are as hard to hear as they are to believe, but worth telling anyway.
I used to bum around on the internet looking at freak show stuff and when I found this story I couldn’t sleep. This story made me decide that I had to make a movie no matter what
Your link to the story doesn’t seem to work. I have been looking for the story for months.
I’ve sent an email to the author of this story, asking him to please repost it. After some digging around online I did manage to unearth a copy of the text.
Rumor has it that this story is indeed a work of fiction, which means it is copywrited by its author and cannot be reprinted here without permission.
I’m glad you enjoyed my Alexandre, The Savage Gnome story and web-page. Unfortunately, some people didn’t know how to simply enjoy the story and leave it alone. Despite the fact that the story is copyrighted, a small film company stole the story and tried to make a movie of it without my permission, and countless others stole the story and published it on their own web-sites without giving me credit as the author and asking permission. These are pretty severe copyright violations and I’m still in litigation with the film company. Therefore, to protect my own work, I’ve had to remove the story, and all my other stories, from the web.
To answer your question: Yes. The story is fiction. But I’m very pleased you had to ask. =)
Thanks again for your interest in Alexandre, The Savage Gnome.
Jonathan M. Vick
I can’t even describe how much of an idiot I feel like after realizing today (over three years after having originally read the story) that this was a work of fiction. It has remained in my mind all of this time and I have even related the story to subsequently horrified friends. I think the reason I believed it was because I never read the ending with “Regina” the living doll; I only made it as far as the tragic figure crafting dolls in the cellar. I must say that I am not generally taken in by random internet fodder (bonsai kittens, anyone?), but that was a damn good story…literally chilling.
holy crap, I fail.
Don’t feel too bad. It was a convincing story, wasn’t it? I was fooled, too.
(Bonsai kittens — what?)
Oh, it was this stupid chain email a million years ago talking about these inhumane people who stick kittens in bottles and force them to grow inside, and their was this stupid appeal to sign their list and gain the government’s recognition of this travesty of kitty rights, etc., etc. Basically, an idiotic exploitation of teenage girls’ love of kittens. Needless to say, I did not sign.
Wow, tangent and a half.
Those sorts of things — oral traditions, if you will, like urban legends, rumors, strange tales — they’re interesting to me. I “collected” this tale about the savage gnome, with the idea in mind that I would begin a larger collection of these sorts of things, but I never got around to it. Perhaps I should find others.
BonsaiKittens are a good edition to the list, however, I’d feel jinxed from the start if the first two items in the collection were proven fakes!
After all, you can’t have something truly bizarre, unless it is tru and bizarre.
I swear to god I was totally fooled, when I got to the end,and I found out it wasn’t real I was disapointed at first but then just said wow that was a damn good story, thank you for writing it
The first thing I thought of after reading the story was that it would be one of the best horror movies of the decade. The author should do everything in his power to get this story on the screen. Stephen King would have a field day with this. Anyway, it was an excellent story that scared the hell out of myself and my kids (all of whom were raised on horror and are not easily frightened). Hoping to someday see this in a movie!