![]() Obviously, it’s not a kid’s book, it was just a little sparse for my taste. Apartment Life helps owners and managers care for their residents by connecting them in life-giving relationships. But I digress! This was a great collection of eerie stories! Most of them have a lot of implied horror, which I do like, just not as much as obvious horror, cuz I’m an obvious person! I did love the illustrations, but there were times when I felt like I was reading a kid’s picture book. ![]() And I give him credit he never buys me a book without reading the description first and if it doesn’t sound good to him, then he saves it for me to buy for myself. In this collection of five graphic (in both senses of the word) horror stories complemented by an evocative introduction and a downright spooky conclusion, comics artist Emily Carroll spools. Or find yourself a young bride in a house that holds a terrible secret in “A Lady’s Hands Are Cold.” You might try to figure out what is haunting “My Friend Janna,” or discover that your brother’s fiancée may not be what she seems in “The Nesting Place.” And of course, you must revisit the horror of “His Face All Red,” the breakout web-comic hit that has been gorgeously translated to the printed page.Ĭreepy as all get out!!! I mean holy crap! Ivan got me this book for my birthday this year, and that shouldn’t be surprising since he’s a horror geek. These are fairy tales gone seriously wrong, where you can travel to “Our Neighbor’s House”-though coming back might be a problem. So, do you want to read this book? Do you like anthologies? Share your thoughts in the comments.Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features four brand-new stories and one phenomenally popular tale in print for the first time. I don’t think I’ll recommend it to anyone because I didn’t like it, but most of the people who read it loved it a lot, so I’m just a minority and you should take my review with a grain of salt, lol. But now that I’ve tested the waters, I’d pick up some mild horror anthologies or even the Stephen King books. I wouldn’t have missed out on anything had I not read it (other than the gorgeous art that I need to print and fix on my walls – jk). Unfortunately, this book wasn’t terrifying or unsettling or spine-chilling, as most reviews say. One of the reasons I had wanted to read this one is because it is a horror anthology, and one of my blogging friends, Suzan, had wanted me to read horror to spice up my reading experience lol. They just felt like story-prompts and not full stories. The other stories were kinda underdeveloped. Emily Carroll’s collection of horror comics, Through the Woods, operates largely on the alienation of the inexplicable experience. In fact, most of them were either boring or felt incomplete, other than the last one - it was called The Nesting Place –which was…okay. There’s no other way to say it, but it turns out that art is the only thing that’s good about this book, as none of these stories were half decent. ![]() I loved the artwork - it was colorful and bright and just plain beautiful. In fact, this is one of the prettiest books I’ve seen in my entire life, and I’ve seen quite a few, so that’s saying something. However, I am a little disappointed with Through the Woods by Emily Caroll.Īs soon as I’d heard about it and seen the gorgeous cover, I had really wanted to read it and enjoy it. I’m a huge fan of art - even though I can’t for the life of me draw an amoeba with my scrawny little fingers– so, naturally, I love graphic novels and webcomics… I admire all of the creators of graphic novels because what’s better than a story is a story with some gorgeous art. These chilling tales spring from the macabre imagination of acclaimed and award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll.Ĭome take a walk in the woods and see what awaits you there… My Thoughts ![]() Most strange things do.įive mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss.
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