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Right off the bat, this book sets the dark and dreary tone that courses throughout the whole of it via handwritten text set atop highly contrasting visuals laid atop pure blackness. I've read a decent number of horror comic books and graphic novels before, all of them with different approaches taken (from the 'Twilight Zone'-Inspired "Underwater Welder" to the heavily stylized "30 Days of Night"), but this is the first one I've read where I've been able to say "this is beyond a doubt a horror book" right from the first page. The visuals are terrifyingly beautiful to say the least, and the hand-written dialogue laid out in the negative space of each page helps to intensify the unease in the reader that is so clearly sought after by the author.

This book is a collection of five short horror stories, depicting different people from a very wide range of time periods, social statuses, and general walks of life coming face to face with supernatural horrors. Each of the stories, save for the fifth one, end on such an ambiguous note that the reader has to wonder if the protagonist of each story really encountered something terrible or if it was all in their own heads, which in my opinion makes for the best kind of horror. Engaging the reader by making them really think about what they just read/saw is something only the best stories are capable of. The aforementioned fifth short story contained in this collection is not as ambiguous as the other four, but it does end with a highly suspenseful cliffhanger, as all good horror should.

The art, as mentioned before, is very striking and beautiful, but it was the panel layout that truly caught my eye. I'm a sucker for unique panel layouts in comic books and graphic novels that challenge the reader to think outside of the box and follow the flow of the story more naturally, rather than the traditional stack of boxes that an overwhelming majority of stories in this medium employ. The second story contained in this book, "A Lady's Hands are Cold," particularly encapsulates this layout method in a truly beautiful way, and was the highlight of the book, in my eyes.

If I were to gripe about anything in this book, it would be that is was simply far too short and I wanted so much more. I highly, highly recommend that anyone who is a fan of the graphic novel medium, horror stories, and even the classic fairy tales as told by the Brothers Grimm pick up this volume and read the other online material from the creator. I know I'll be following Mrs. Carroll's work from now on.


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Through the Woods Emily Carroll Books Reviews

love this book and the artists amazingly creepy art style. i first found out about the author when i found a site with a few short story's she had drawn and written, one of them included in this book (his face all red). on the site she announced that this book was coming out and after looking at the previews i had to get it. and now ive finally got it, read it, and i loved it. =]

this book contains multiple short story's with amazing art.
chapters

introduction
our neighbors house
a ladys hands are cold
his face all red
my friend janna
the nesting place
in conclusion

Warning for those family members who think this mite be good for bed time story's to young kids. its NOT. although the style seems slightly cartoonish or "simple" like in most kids books. this will definitely give young kids nightmare. adults and teens iam sure will be unaffected. just a simple warning to parents who don't look deeply into what the book is about. iam sure, or at least i hope, this warning wont really be needed. =]
There are so many different ways to create horror, especially in comics. If you’re Richard Corben, you go with surreality, cheesecake, and backwoods decadence. If you’re Bernie Wrightson, you go with lifelike detail and emotion. If you’re Mike Mignola, you go with thick lines and hints of antiquity. If you’re Junji Ito, you go with body horror, spirals, and fish.

If you’re Emily Carroll, you go with subtly complex simplicity, negative space, vivid colors, and fairy tales.

Emily Carroll is an artist who publishes many of her horror webcomics online. Only one of the stories in this collection — the masterful and near-legendary “His Face All Red” — is available on her website. The rest of the tales in this book are gloriously new and wonderfully diabolical.

We get “Our Neighbor’s House,” in which three young girls are left alone in a winter storm — until they encounter a strange man with a broad-brimmed hat and a full-face smile. We get “A Lady’s Hands Are Cold,” a ghostly variant of the Bluebeard legend. We get “My Friend Janna,” in which two friends dabble in spiritualism and discover something spectral and predatory. And we get “The Nesting Place,” in which a girl visits her brother and discovers that his wife is hiding a gruesome secret underneath her skin.

Carroll does an amazing job of creating stories that seem both timeless and ancient, and utterly new and shocking. I think my favorite story in this one is the first — “Our Neighbor’s House” — because it never shows you anything horrific and lets your imagination do all the heavy lifting — which I still think is Carroll’s greatest strength.

But that doesn’t mean the others aren’t all fantastic, too. “My Friend Janna” brings us subtle terrors we’re not even sure if we can see clearly and definitely can’t possibly understand. Is Janna being haunted at all? What’s the significance of the pulse inside the ghost? And “A Lady’s Hands Are Cold” is more gruesome but also a slower burn. The song sung throughout helps a story already rooted in the past feel even older, like it’s something pulled up from antiquity.

“The Nesting Place” is the tale that seems to break most of the rules one expects from Carroll’s work — it’s much more modern, there’s more dialogue, less omniscient narration, and the horrors are downright gory. But I loved the hell out of this one, too. The surreal shapeshifting monster in this story has horribly human motivations, and that makes the story more powerful and more frightening.

If you love horror, beautiful artwork, splendid little stories, and fears both subtle and shrieking, both chilling and gore-caked, you'll want to pick this one up.
Right off the bat, this book sets the dark and dreary tone that courses throughout the whole of it via handwritten text set atop highly contrasting visuals laid atop pure blackness. I've read a decent number of horror comic books and graphic novels before, all of them with different approaches taken (from the 'Twilight Zone'-Inspired "Underwater Welder" to the heavily stylized "30 Days of Night"), but this is the first one I've read where I've been able to say "this is beyond a doubt a horror book" right from the first page. The visuals are terrifyingly beautiful to say the least, and the hand-written dialogue laid out in the negative space of each page helps to intensify the unease in the reader that is so clearly sought after by the author.

This book is a collection of five short horror stories, depicting different people from a very wide range of time periods, social statuses, and general walks of life coming face to face with supernatural horrors. Each of the stories, save for the fifth one, end on such an ambiguous note that the reader has to wonder if the protagonist of each story really encountered something terrible or if it was all in their own heads, which in my opinion makes for the best kind of horror. Engaging the reader by making them really think about what they just read/saw is something only the best stories are capable of. The aforementioned fifth short story contained in this collection is not as ambiguous as the other four, but it does end with a highly suspenseful cliffhanger, as all good horror should.

The art, as mentioned before, is very striking and beautiful, but it was the panel layout that truly caught my eye. I'm a sucker for unique panel layouts in comic books and graphic novels that challenge the reader to think outside of the box and follow the flow of the story more naturally, rather than the traditional stack of boxes that an overwhelming majority of stories in this medium employ. The second story contained in this book, "A Lady's Hands are Cold," particularly encapsulates this layout method in a truly beautiful way, and was the highlight of the book, in my eyes.

If I were to gripe about anything in this book, it would be that is was simply far too short and I wanted so much more. I highly, highly recommend that anyone who is a fan of the graphic novel medium, horror stories, and even the classic fairy tales as told by the Brothers Grimm pick up this volume and read the other online material from the creator. I know I'll be following Mrs. Carroll's work from now on.