![]() It's a story in conversation with Bluebeard and Mr. I badly want to hold up three pages in "A Lady's Hands Are Cold" in order to discuss at obnoxious length how the twisting layout on one page draws the gaze into a song, how the song encircles a character, how the art is contrapuntal and telling three stories in harmonic dissonance to the line of the prose. These stories are thick with the cadence and syntax of fairy tale, where the telling's stylized repetitions are rendered as much through art as through words. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. These are tales of strange things that come from or go into the woods - and what they did to people, or had done to them, along the way.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Through the Woods Author Emily Carroll ![]() (Most strange things do)," which recurs in "His Face All Red," the story of a man who murders his brother only to see him emerge from the woods whole, happy and unscathed. If there is a key to this collection, it is the phrase, "It came from the woods. ![]() In these five graphic tales (meaning comics, not stories told in Grand Guignol fashion - although that linguistic line is definitely blurred here), Carroll's sinuous prose and emphatic art blend seamlessly into a path through the stories she tells. Usually whenever I encounter horror stories, I'm left feeling dissatisfied with the quality of my unsettlement I think "oh, that was gratuitous" or "eh, was that necessary?" With very few exceptions, I tend not to seek out horror.Įmily Carroll's Through the Woods is so thoroughly an exception that I have to revise my stance on the whole genre.
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