With her web comics and short story collection Through the Woods, Emily Carroll has established herself as this generation's preeminent horror cartoonist. Drawing on Romanticism, Gothicism, videogames, myth, body horror, feminism, furries, and fan culture Carroll's comics are melange of Atwood and anime, Blake and body dysmorphia. Carroll presents a truly modern horror feast preying on the psyche of today's youth.
Lushly illustrated, with especially deep, blood reds, and combining prose passages, in a nod to Gothic epistolary novels, When I Arrived at the Castle draws the reader into its dark corridors and singular vision.
