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Porcelain is an anthology horror podcast where each episode is a self-contained story connected by the delicate, unsettling presence of antique dolls. Luna guides listeners through a collection of tales that explore the uncanny nature of porcelain-faced figures—dolls that seem to watch, that hold secrets in their painted eyes, that appear in places they shouldn't be. From a Victorian mansion where a collection of dolls begins to rearrange themselves at night, to a small-town antique shop where a single doll carries the weight of a forgotten tragedy, to a modern home where a child's doll ...

Porcelain and Pink - one of the stories, which entered in a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald Tales of the Jazz Age (1922). Originally appearing in the January 1920 issue of The Smart Set, Porcelain and Pink was the earliest of the stories Fitzgerald would later reprint in a book-length collection. Porcelain and Pink is a comic one-act play. The plot involves a young woman in a bathtub and a case of mistaken identity.  The story is a bit of a lark, a one-act burlesque that opens with a splendidly droll parody of stage directions, featuring a blue porcelain bathtub.