The Puppet Master is the eleventh studio album by Danish heavy metal band King Diamond, released on 21 October 2003.

A limited edition includes a DVD on which frontman King Diamond tells the story of the Puppet Master.

The album opens at the end of the story, with the narrator giving a monologue as he is "hanging" from a wall, snow falling in the night outside.

He reminisces about his life before his current predicament, giving small hints as to the horrors he was forced to witness and be subjected to ("Midnight").

However, a year later Victoria fails to return home after going to see another puppet show, and the fearful narrator sets out in the night to find her ("Magic").

In his search for Victoria, the narrator notices Emerencia, the Puppet Master's obese wife, emerge from the theater's cellar with a knife, a sack and a cart.

The Puppet Master uses an instrument to pull the eyeballs out of their sockets, cutting through the nerves holding the eyes in place.

The couple are given injections of blood, which gives them mobility under the Puppet Master's direction, who affectionately refers to them as his "children."

The injections of blood last a maximum of an hour before their effects wear off; the narrator describes the hellish process as an unending cycle of living and dying, over and over.

Due to his actions during the Christmas performance, the narrator is sold to another shop, where his puppet body is pinned to the wall, a nail driven through its throat.