Through the Woods

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Janna's behaviors and eventual death or disappearance has many of the hallmarks of someone becoming suicidal. There is a spirit that surrounds her, and it slowly is taking over Janna eventually until Janna disappears entirely.

Who is going to look at Mabel's rosy cheeks and shingled hair and see anything other than a charming young woman?It also highlighted themes of isolation and guilt that appear throughout her work, as well as her preference for ambiguous endings. Honestly, some of them, while being creepy, could be a metaphor for mental illness/depression (in a twisted way, yes, but still metaphors) which I found really interesting.

A Lady’s Hands are Cold, my second favorite of the five stories, is a Bluebeard type of retelling, with the ghost of a murdered woman wailing for vengeance from within the walls of her home. At the end, Beth accepts the strange man planting his hat on her head, symbolizing her acceptance that she is dead and is able to reunite with her dead family. Other characters, such as Yvonne's sister or the people who come to see Janne the fake psychic go nameless.

Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The protagonist, a young woman in an Arranged Marriage, finds pieces of her husband's murdered first wife concealed all over the house. Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. My Friend Janna follows two unlikely best friends; Janna is a medium, while the narrator of the tale helps Jana swindle the bereaved who come to her for answers from beyond the grave.

Greed: Likely why the husband murdered his first wife, made even worse by the fact that said wife was willing to give everything to him out of love for him. Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again" said a shadow at the window "and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time. But when some sort of spaghetti-like material emerges from the dead but animated woman in one of the last stories, I am hooked. For her 2014 webcomic The Hole the Fox Did Make, Carroll chose for a limited format to see how she could create unease in a limited space.Unlike Mary, who sunk into denial following their father's death, and Beth, who is concerned for everyone's safety, Hannah is a poor kid who doesn't really understand what's going on. In the first tale, a girl narrates the mysterious disappearance of her two sisters after her father goes hunting. She's depicted as the most reasonable of her sisters, looking out for their well-being and trying to convince them it is better to go to the neighbor's house where they have better chances of surviving the snowstorm. I adored the imagery and writing as a whole, but for over half of the stories, I felt the endings fell a bit flat.