Recently I finished Through the Woods, Emily Carroll’s...

Recently I finished Through the Woods, Emily Carroll’s extraordinary collection of original horror stories in graphic form, and I did something I almost never, ever do: I read it again. Five bloody tales of the human inside the monster, and the monster inside of us. Delicious, and disturbing. 

The artwork and words are a perfect marriage of disturbing fairy-tale beauty and darkness, Dame Darcy’s swirling maelstrom of barely repressed neo-Victoriana and stylized violence matched with the haunted specificity of Angela Carter. Every page in this volume is its own work of deeply felt and exquisitely executed virtuosity.

I cannot recommend it highly enough.