In "Our Neighbor's House," three little girls are left alone when their father disappears into the woods, and must decide whether to wait longer than the allotted time for him to return, or journey next door.
The other stories each end with a portentous, scary statement not exactly a stinger-style twist, akin to those of old EC horror comics and their imitators, but a sentence or phrase that relies on readers to fill in its exact meaning with their own imaginations. I think I'll take a take an average-sized wolf cross-dressing as a grandmother over a 10-foot-tall, bipedal one making convincing threats through my bedroom window any time. the WOLF only needs enough luck to find you ONCE." "You must travel those woods again & again," the wolf-thing says, "And you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time. The creature is so large that what in one panel looked to be the moon turned out to be its eye all we see of it is its massive white eyes, almost the size of the girl's head, and its similarly glowing white teeth. For example, the Little Red Riding Hood allusion in the conclusion, part of the set of stories that bookend the five gothic (in the traditional, literary sense) short stories that form the bulk of Carroll's collection, ends with the wolf, if that's really what it is, appearing in the dark outside the girl's window.
Lovecraft or August Derleth than August Derleth or Wilhem and Jacob Grimm at their, well, grimmest. Second, they're terrifying, some of them more H.P. First, Carroll's stories are told in comics form, although more artfully constructed than what you might expect to find on the new racks each Wednesday (her book comes courtesy of a Simon and Schuster imprint, rather than a traditional comics publisher).
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