Inside the walls and floor of the house, she found the decaying body parts of a woman and eventually the head which sang an awful lament. When the young lady could not take it anymore, she took a hatchet and began to hack at the house. It’s cold where I am and so lonely…”Įvery night the wailing would get louder as if it was coming from the houses very bones. He murdered me dead in autumn, and by winter I was naught but decay. From the first night onward the lady would hear a moaning wail coming from somewhere in the house decrying “I married my love in the springtime, but by summer he’s locked me away. It is the story of a young lady married off to a Man in a large white manor. Until finally, there is no one left at all and he is, in fact, not a man.Ī Lady’s Hands Are Cold – To me, this is the most Gothic of tales in the collection and probably my least favorite. One by one though, as they disappear into the night, you know something is wrong with the man. This is a slow burn of a horror story, in the beginning, it seems innocuous enough that a man, maybe a neighbor, comes to the door and offers reassurance to the girls. He is stealing the children away much like the pied piper. He is full of smiles with a wide-brimmed hat, and one by one the sisters are charmed away. A mysterious stranger starts coming to the door. When he doesn’t come back after three days, instead of heading off to the neighbor’s house as they were instructed they sit and wait. Our Neighbor’s House – This is the story of three pioneer girls: Mary, Beth, and Hannah waiting for their father to come back from a hunting trip. Each of them in one way or another is about the horrors that exist inside of a person, and the horrors we cannot see that are lurking for us in the dark whether literally or figuratively. This book is a collection of five gothic horror scary stories beautifully illustrated. 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. IGN Award for Best Original Graphic Novel (2014)įrom the publisher, “ ‘It came from the woods.Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Graphic Novels & Comics (2014).Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Graphic Album-Reprint (2015).Green Carnation Prize Nominee for Longlist (2014).British Fantasy Award for Best Comic/Graphic Novel (2015). Milwaukee County Teen Book Award (2015).Rhode Island Teen Book Award Nominee (2017).Bram Stoker Award Nominee for Best Graphic Novel (2014).McElderry Books (first published July 1st, 2014) Published July 15th, 2014 by Margaret K.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 webcomic hit that has been gorgeously translated to the printed page.Īlready revered for her work online, award-winning comic creator Emily Carroll’s stunning visual style and impeccable pacing is on grand display in this entrancing anthology, her print debut. These are fairy tales gone seriously wrong, where you can travel to “Our Neighbor’s House”-though coming back might be a problem. 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. Discover a terrifying world in the woods in this collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories that includes the online webcomic sensation “His Face All Red,” in print for the first time.
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