![]() ![]() ![]() But the discoveries she makes within speak of lost souls and guilty complicity in a brooding drama steeped in the darkly erotic… Entering the gothic environs of the vampiric Countess’s castle, a young woman (in the guise of an anthropomorphic feline) has very specific motives to end the evil that lurks therein. In that regard, from Through the Woods to Frontier‘s ‘Ann By the Bed’, Emily Carroll’s work has always been as hypnotic as it is terrifying.Ĭarroll’s When I Arrived at the Castle is an intense character piece, published by the ever reliable Koyama Press. ![]() The implicit and the explicit working in perfect symbiotic balance. True narrative horror is as much about what isn’t said – what is left to the readers’ interpretation and imagination – as it is about the genre’s more overt and ostentatious trappings. ![]()
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