6/1/2023 0 Comments Emily carroll books![]() ![]() With cantilevered perspectives and dark inky splotches speckling the corners, the spooky images of stark forests, gaping caves, bloodshot eyes, and ominous shadows are brilliantly married to the text printed in manic handwritten fonts, some crazed and swirling, others coldly deadpan. ![]() All the tales in Carroll’s debut graphic novel are fairly standard ghost stories, but it is her eerie illustrations-popping with bold color on black, glossy pages-that masterfully build terrifying tension and a keep-the-lights-on atmosphere. Three sisters wait for their father to return, but one by one they disappear with a tall man in a broad-brimmed hat. A girl spends the summer with her brother and his fiancée, who is not what she seems. A wealthy young woman weds a man in a lonely old house, and at night she hears a forlorn song of unavenged murder lilting from the walls. ![]()
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