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I'm gonna start writing these Writers Showcases. Everything from this point forwards will be a random (well, quasi-random) writer off of creepypasta.wikia.com but for this first one I decided to do a writer off of somewhere else.

So. Emily Caroll is an online horror writer and artist. If you know her from anything, you know her from His Face All Red, a surreal horror comic about a guy who kills his brother in the woods. I'd elaborate but I'd also prefer not to.

Her art style is pretty angular and appealing.

You can find her site here you can pretty much assume that if I mention any of her stories then you should go read it before reading ahead. Consider this your one and only SPOILER WARNING

Emily Carroll is, first off, really REALLY good at horror.

So of course you can tell she understands horror when she can draw something as literally terrifying as this.



Holy wut.

Her art is good at being simple when it needs to be simple, detailed when it needs to be detailed, and absolutely nightmare inducing when it needs to be absolutely nightmare inducing.

Her first story is called "The Hare's Bride" and what I find most interesting about it is that it's listed as a "fairy tale" on her site and when it starts it's pretty innocent. And then it uh....

...it stops. A girl gets lured by a hare to his home where they're gonna get married. Aw!! He tells her to make some food while invites the wedding guests. Aw! He turns into a bunny guy in a tux and tells her to open the gates for him because the wedding guests are all there. Aw? She takes her clothes off and drapes them onto a stack of hay. Aw...

He bursts open the door, claiming the wedding guests are hungry, and devours the stack of hay. AH!?!?!?!!!!

....And then he turns back into a bunny. Aw!!

The story's really weird but it's, very appropriately, evocative of the Brothers Grimm style of stories. It sort of almost has a moral about not running off with strangers and the way she "outsmarts" the hare is pretty on point. One thing she's definitely very great at is replicating the weird uncomfortable horror vibes of other freaky scary writers.

Her next story is called "Out the Door" and it's about uh..

Well see it's about. Well...

Well, It's about a little kid who walks into the arms of a skeleton in the basement, all set to some narration describing the directions to get to him...I have nothing to say about it but for whatever reason I was awestruck. Pretty weird and experimental.

The next story of "His Face All Red" which I can now elaborate on.

He murders his bro in a hole, his bro comes back to town a week later. He goes back to the hole, his bro is still in there. Oooh, spooks a plenty!!

This story is very Edgar Allen Poe-ish. The way it treats guilt as if it's as supernatural as the supernatural thing that happens is one of those things I always see as some kind or reference to Poe but the time period and writing style certainly aren't helping me here either. The story is so uncomfortable and creepy. It gets progressively creepier every time you re-read it and the final panel is the closest thing a webcomic can have to a jumpscare.

Her next story is a really nice love story about love and love and this is a horror site so FORGET THAT ONE!!!

Next story: The Prince and the Sea about a prince who falls in love with a sea maiden and then his uncle drowns him. She's ecstatic, he's dead. A little humurous, with a lot of morbidity. Definitely gets bonus points for the fact that it all rhymes.

I'll stop here, the next one is named Margot's Room and I'll let you stumble drunkenly into THAT supernatural bar-fight because if I wasn't prepared for it, then neither will you. 