Emily Carroll won two Joe Shuster Awards in the category "Outstanding Web Comics Creator", in 2011 and 2012 respectively. [20] [21] More Teeth than the Osmond Family: As a girl, Bell's mother would tell her stories of such monsters. Bell never believed them. The critic Joe McCulloch said of Carroll's His Face All Red, “Even in the late ’80s, guys like Stephen Bissette were developing forums like Taboo which were specifically designed to counteract the traditionalism of comics horror … ‘His Face All Red’ seemed a break from that when it hit me. And it hit a lot of people.”

Face Stealer: The monster kills people and then inhabits their bodies, pretending to be them. "She" initially tries taking Bell with this intention, but then Bell exploits the fact that Monster Is a Mommy by telling "Rebecca" of the horrors she and her children will experience once they actually get to the city, frightening the monster so much that "she" leaves Bell alone. But then at the end of the story, Bell discovers Clarence has become a host, too... Gory Discretion Shot: We never see the husband's violent death upon meeting his first wife's corpse, only that one of the mansion's windows became heavily smeared with his blood after returning home from a hunt. This is a beautifully rendered but deeply chilling collection of vignettes that will be most appreciated by teens and adults who are fans of fairy tales, horror, and the things that hide in the dark. A delight for Edgar Allan Poe and Alvin Schwartz enthusiasts." and it's also in the running for top story (along with our neighbor's house). this one reads more like a fairy tale than the others; a little hint of bluebeard but with fewer wives, more property damage, and much less gratitude.which, considering this is meant as a YA book is probably for the best, but i'm still looking for my big scare, and i fear it will never come. The art was beautiful and the stories were really great. Honestly, some of them, while being creepy, could be a metaphor for mental illness/depression (in a twisted way, yes, but still metaphors) which I found really interesting. Overall a really compelling read with a lot of different elements - most of them being TERRIFYING.

this one feels very familiar. there's an olde timey new england vibe to it, and while i don't think it's actually based on anything, it feels like a mashup of a bunch of different stories, like something that would be read aloud in a spoooooky voice during a haunted hayride right before costumed people come running out of the woods all clawing and moaning to the delighted shrieks of girl scouts. makes me want to drink warm cider. See, none of these stories really gave me goosebumps, yet I can’t deny that my heart pounding increased as I was getting closer to each story end… In that aspect, this is a real success. Who needs to be scared to death anyway? Certainly not me. Unsettled, though… urn:lcp:throughwoods0000carr_d1t0:epub:769b1339-8906-4229-a096-f8df6c6408e6 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier throughwoods0000carr_d1t0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2z78x01w30 Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781442465954

Canadian comics writer Emily Carroll has produced a graphic debut that blends the gothic strangeness of Tim Burton with the macabre illustrations of Edward Gorey to create a wonderfully chilling collection of tales. Through the Woods is an uncanny wonder. This haunting collection of visual stories, part Stephen King and part Edgar Allen Poe, is a special kind of quiet horror."

Dying Candle: The "ghost" haunting Janna appears to kill her just as candle that Yvonne was carrying goes out. Lccn 2013030969 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Japanese Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.4196 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1300140 Openlibrary_edition Carroll riffs on the classic fairy tale, Bluebeard, in A Lady’s Hands are Cold, as the new bride of a nobleman hears the haunting cries of a woman throughout the castle at night. The horror is built up really well to a point that feels a bit like the ending of The Shining.

His Face All Red begins a theme that’ll last for the next three tales, namely the idea of someone - or something - possessing your body, wearing it like a meat puppet and undergoing a complete personality change (maybe she’s so fearful of this because someone in Carroll’s family had Alzheimer’s?). Two brothers, one a hero, one forgotten, go into the woods to kill the monster terrorising the village - not realising the monsters were never on the outside. Talking the Monster to Death: Bell saves herself from the monster by convincing it that its plan to use Bell as a host and move to the city, where there would be many more hosts available, would end terribly for its children. If there’s such thing as falling in love at first sight with graphics, I think I just experienced it.