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* DontGoInTheWoods: In keeping with traditional tales and horror stories, going into the woods is a bad idea. Fittingly, the comic cover features a forest with a [[BadMoonRising red moon]].
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* DontGoInTheWoods: In keeping with traditional tales and horror stories, going into the woods is a bad idea. Fittingly, the comic cover features a forest with a [[BadMoonRising red moon]].moon]], the trees' branches looking like CreepyLongFingers.
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* BadMoonRising: The moon is red, signifying danger.
* CreepyLongFingers: The tree branches resemble long, grasping fingers which appear to be reaching toward the tiny figure crossing the field.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Save for a tiny [[SplashOfColor splash of blue]], the cover uses a limited palette of black, white, and red.
* EvilOverlooker: A giant, wolf-like face with one glaring eye can be seen in the sky.
* GiganticMoon: The moon is hundreds of times bigger than it would be in real life, taking up a good portion of the cover.
* SplashOfColor: A tiny figure in blue can be seen crossing the snowy field, contrasting with the limited palette of black, white, and red.
* WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver: The part of the cover framed by the forest is white and red for a stark effect -- the white sky and snowy ground, the red moon and wolf face, and the title in white letters on top of the red.
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* BadMoonRising: The moon is red, signifying danger.
* CreepyLongFingers: The tree branches resemble long, grasping fingers which appear to be reaching toward the tiny figure crossing the field.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Save for a tiny [[SplashOfColor splash of blue]], the cover uses a limited palette of black, white, and red.
* EvilOverlooker: A giant, wolf-like face with one glaring eye can be seen in the sky.
* GiganticMoon: The moon is hundreds of times bigger than it would be in real life, taking up a good portion of the cover.
* SplashOfColor: A tiny figure in blue can be seen crossing the snowy field, contrasting with the limited palette of black, white, and red.
* WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver: The part of the cover framed by the forest is white and red for a stark effect -- the white sky and snowy ground, the red moon and wolf face, and the title in white letters on top of the red.
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* {{Irony}}: At one point when thinking of the people who come to see her and Janna, Yvonne marvels at how much emotional energy they spend on people who can no longer appreciate it and for whom it does no good. At the end, [[spoiler:after Janna has possibly been killed and her body disappeared, Yvonne thinks about her Janna will always be her friend. It's implied that it's this kind of outpouring of energy that allows the "ghost" to haunt her. Furthermore, Yvonne had been growing increasingly distant from Yvonne before her disappearance. As soon as Janna disappears, Yvonne shows much more passion about her friend.]]
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* {{Irony}}: At one point when thinking of the people who come to see her and Janna, Yvonne marvels at how much emotional energy they spend on people who can no longer appreciate it and for whom it does no good. At the end, [[spoiler:after Janna has possibly been killed and her body disappeared, Yvonne thinks about her how Janna will always be her friend. It's implied that it's this kind of outpouring of energy that allows the "ghost" to haunt her. Furthermore, Yvonne had been growing increasingly distant from Yvonne before her disappearance. As soon as Janna disappears, Yvonne shows much more passion about her friend.]]
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* "My Friend Janna": Yvonne and Janna are two close friends have spent years pretending that they can talk to the spirits of the dead. But Yvonne actually ''can'' see what might be a ghost, and it appears to be haunting Janna.
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* "My Friend Janna": Yvonne and Janna are two close friends who have spent years pretending that they can talk to the spirits of the dead. But Yvonne actually ''can'' see what might be a ghost, and it appears to be haunting Janna.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: Yvonne's narration notes that all Janna does anymore is write, and describes what Janna writes as "nonsense". We get a shot of Yvonne seeing the writing and looking alarmed by it, but not a look at the actual writing itself. [[https://i.imgur.com/yKvUT4a.jpg Link]]
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* TakeOurWordForIt: Yvonne's narration notes that all Janna does anymore is write, and describes what Janna writes as "nonsense". We get a shot of Yvonne seeing the writing and looking alarmed by it, but not a look at the actual writing itself. [[https://i.imgur.com/yKvUT4a.jpg Link]]a shot]] of Yvonne seeing the writing and looking alarmed by it, but not a look at the actual writing itself.
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* "My Friend Janna": Two close friends have spent years pretending that they can talk to the spirits of the dead. But one of them actually ''can'' see a ghost.
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* "My Friend Janna": Two Yvonne and Janna are two close friends have spent years pretending that they can talk to the spirits of the dead. But one of them Yvonne actually ''can'' see what might be a ghost.ghost, and it appears to be haunting Janna.
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[[folder:Tropes shared by all stories]]multiple stories]]
* BodyMotifs: Teeth figure prominently in many of the stories, and the artwork (especially when people are eating), often associates them with blood and violence.
* BodyMotifs: Teeth figure prominently in many of the stories, and the artwork (especially when people are eating), often associates them with blood and violence.
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* RedIsViolent: A recurring motif in the series. Whenever the color red appears, especially in great quantities, it's usually a sign of approaching danger and death.
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* RedIsViolent: A recurring motif in the series. Whenever the color red appears, especially in great quantities, it's usually a sign of approaching danger and death. Curiously, nearly all the characters in the various stories are depicted with a permanent blush.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: From what little is shown, the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile who haunts the three sisters is dressed in black, including his hat. [[spoiler:He's also implied to be TheGrimReaper who comes to take the girls into the afterlife after they die during a snowstorm. Both Mary and Hannah say kind words about him, and is seen tenderly hugging Hannah when he takes her. Beth is afraid of the man at first, but she accepts him putting his hat on her head when they meet at the neighbor's house, possibly symbolizing her accepting that she's dead and is now able to reunite with her dead family]].
* DeadAllAlong: One possible interpretation of the story. [[spoiler:The winter cold and lack of food killed all of the girls sometime between when their father left and when Beth makes a last ditch effort to travel to their neighbor's house. The story then consists of the girls accepting one by one that they are dead before the man with the wide-brimmed hat (in other words, TheGrimReaper) can collect them and help them to move on.]]
* DeadAllAlong: One possible interpretation of the story. [[spoiler:The winter cold and lack of food killed all of the girls sometime between when their father left and when Beth makes a last ditch effort to travel to their neighbor's house. The story then consists of the girls accepting one by one that they are dead before the man with the wide-brimmed hat (in other words, TheGrimReaper) can collect them and help them to move on.]]
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* DarkIsNotEvil: From what little is shown, the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile who haunts the three sisters is dressed in black, including his hat. [[spoiler:He's also implied to be TheGrimReaper who comes to take the girls into the afterlife after they die during a snowstorm. Both Mary and Hannah say kind words about him, and are cheered by his presence, and furthermore he is seen tenderly hugging Hannah when he takes her. Beth is afraid of the man at first, but she accepts him putting his hat on her head when they meet at the neighbor's house, possibly symbolizing her accepting that she's dead and is now able to reunite with her dead family]].
* DeadAllAlong: One possible interpretation of the story. [[spoiler:The winter cold and lack of food killed all of the girls sometime between when their father left and when Beth makes a last ditch effort to travel to their neighbor's house. The story then consists of the girls accepting one by one that they are dead before the man with the wide-brimmed hat (in other words, TheGrimReaper) can collect them and help them to move on.]] (Notably, the narration does say that on the third day after their father left all three girls are hit by "a strange lethargy", and did little to nothing that day, which would be consistent with symptoms of hypothermia.)]]
* DeadAllAlong: One possible interpretation of the story. [[spoiler:The winter cold and lack of food killed all of the girls sometime between when their father left and when Beth makes a last ditch effort to travel to their neighbor's house. The story then consists of the girls accepting one by one that they are dead before the man with the wide-brimmed hat (in other words, TheGrimReaper) can collect them and help them to move on.
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* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:The man who haunts the three girls is described with minimal detail, his only traits being his wide-brimmed hat and his toothy smile. The ending implies that he's actually TheGrimReaper (though a [[DontFearTheReaper pretty nice one]]) who has come to usher the girls into the afterlife after they all die during a harsh snowstorm]].
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* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:The man who haunts the three girls is described with minimal detail, his only traits being his wide-brimmed hat and his toothy smile.smile, and only his arms are ever seen in the art. However, when Beth finally sees him she says that you can tell with only a glance at him that he isn't a man. The ending implies that he's actually TheGrimReaper (though a [[DontFearTheReaper pretty nice one]]) who has come to usher the girls into the afterlife after they all die during a harsh snowstorm]].
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* RedIsHeroic: Mary is the middle-born daughter who wears red clothes, and the story is narrated from her prespective.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:After both of her sisters have disappeared with the man with the wide-brimmed hat and toothy smile, the middle sister flees her home to the neighbor's house, despite being without any food and the snow now being much worse than it was several days prior. After an exhausting, dangerous trek, she finally makes it to the neighbor's house... and finds the man with the wide-brimmed hat waiting for her there.]]
* SnowMeansDeath: The story revolves around three girls who live in a village that is hit by a harsh snowstorm. [[spoiler:Their father (and presumably their mother) dies of the cold, and later, the three girls themselves die off one by one; Mary is the last to go after she tries braving a dangerous trek to a neighbor's house in harsh conditions and without food]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:After both of her sisters have disappeared with the man with the wide-brimmed hat and toothy smile, the middle sister flees her home to the neighbor's house, despite being without any food and the snow now being much worse than it was several days prior. After an exhausting, dangerous trek, she finally makes it to the neighbor's house... and finds the man with the wide-brimmed hat waiting for her there.]]
* SnowMeansDeath: The story revolves around three girls who live in a village that is hit by a harsh snowstorm. [[spoiler:Their father (and presumably their mother) dies of the cold, and later, the three girls themselves die off one by one; Mary is the last to go after she tries braving a dangerous trek to a neighbor's house in harsh conditions and without food]].
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* RedIsHeroic: Mary Beth is the middle-born daughter who wears red clothes, and the story is narrated from her prespective.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:After both of her sisters have disappeared with the man with the wide-brimmed hat and toothy smile,the middle sister Beth flees her home to the neighbor's house, despite being without any food and the snow now being much worse than it was several days prior. After an exhausting, dangerous trek, she finally makes it to the neighbor's house... and finds the man with the wide-brimmed hat waiting for her there.]]
* SnowMeansDeath: The story revolves around three girls who live in a village that is hit by a harsh snowstorm. [[spoiler:Their father(and presumably their mother) dies of the cold, and later, the three girls themselves die off one by one; Mary Beth is the last to go after she tries braving a dangerous trek to a neighbor's house in harsh conditions and without food]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:After both of her sisters have disappeared with the man with the wide-brimmed hat and toothy smile,
* SnowMeansDeath: The story revolves around three girls who live in a village that is hit by a harsh snowstorm. [[spoiler:Their father
* DyingCandle: [[spoiler:The "ghost" haunting Janna appears to kill her just as candle that Yvonne was carrying goes out.]]
* GhostlyChill: Yvonne notes that the "ghost" haunting Janna exudes a "terrible chill".
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* {{Irony}}: At one point when thinking of the people who come to see her and Janna, Yvonne marvels at how much emotional energy they spend on people who can no longer appreciate it and for whom it does no good. At the end, [[spoiler:after Janna has possibly been killed and her body disappeared, Yvonne thinks about her Janna will always be her friend. It's implied that it's this kind of outpouring of energy that allows the "ghost" to haunt her.]]
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* {{Irony}}: At one point when thinking of the people who come to see her and Janna, Yvonne marvels at how much emotional energy they spend on people who can no longer appreciate it and for whom it does no good. At the end, [[spoiler:after Janna has possibly been killed and her body disappeared, Yvonne thinks about her Janna will always be her friend. It's implied that it's this kind of outpouring of energy that allows the "ghost" to haunt her. Furthermore, Yvonne had been growing increasingly distant from Yvonne before her disappearance. As soon as Janna disappears, Yvonne shows much more passion about her friend.]]
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* RearWindowWitness: Yvonne goes to Janna's house in the night, and watches through Janna's window as [[spoiler:the ghost apparently kills Janna. Afterwards Janna's room is empty and there's no sign of Janna, so people search for her in the hope that Janna merely ran away or something.]]
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* TakeOurWordForIt: Yvonne's narration notes that all Janna does anymore is write, and describes what Janna writes as "nonsense". We get a shot of Yvonne seeing the writing and looking alarmed by it, but not a look at the actual writing itself. [[https://i.imgur.com/yKvUT4a.jpg Link]]
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** Much of the story in "A Lady's Hands Are Cold" takes place in an extravagant mansion that is isolated by the surrounding forest. However, the trope is reversed: [[spoiler:The danger takes place inside the mansion itself, and the mansion is haunted. At the end, in trying to evade her husband's first wife, now a vengeful corpse hellbent on having the husband all to herself, the second wife flees the mansion and into the surrounding woods where she is safe, though understandably traumatized. The husband, meanwhile, returns home from a hunting trip in the woods to find the first wife he killed waiting for him, and he is gruesomely murdered]].
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* DontGoInTheWoods: In keeping with traditional tales and horror stories, going into the woods is a bad idea.
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* ColorMotif: Red features itself prominently throughout all six stories, and in this case, red symbolizes caution, aggression, and death. Whenever red appears, it's a sign that something bad is going to happen soon. The cover even has a blood-red moon against a stark-white sky and a black forest, which should be a clue for the nature of the entire series.
* DontGoInTheWoods: In keeping with traditional tales and horror stories, going into the woods is a bad idea. Fittingly, the comic cover features a forest with a [[BadMoonRising red moon]].
* DontGoInTheWoods: In keeping with traditional tales and horror stories, going into the woods is a bad idea. Fittingly, the comic cover features a forest with a [[BadMoonRising red moon]].
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** "His Face All Red" makes frequent mention of strange things coming form the woods. Nobody bats an eye at the thought of a monster coming out of the woods to attack their livestock, and later it seems that [[spoiler:a {{Doppelganger}} of the murdered brother comes out of the woods and begins trying to take the brother's place.]]
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** "His Face All Red" makes frequent mention of strange things coming form the woods. Nobody bats an eye at the thought of a monster coming out of the woods to attack their livestock, and later it seems that [[spoiler:a {{Doppelganger}} of the murdered older brother comes out of the woods and begins trying to take the brother's place.]]
* RedIsViolent: A recurring motif in the series. Whenever the color red appears, especially in great quantities, it's usually a sign of approaching danger and death.
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* ArrangedMarriage: The main character enters an arranged marriage with her husband, a wealthy man.
* TheBluebeard: The premise of the story draws on the legend of Bluebeard. [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. [[UngratefulBastard Wife #1 is not as grateful as one might expect]].]]
* TheBluebeard: The premise of the story draws on the legend of Bluebeard. [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. [[UngratefulBastard Wife #1 is not as grateful as one might expect]].]]
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* ArrangedMarriage: The story opens with the main character enters character, a young woman, entering an arranged marriage with her husband, a wealthy man.
--> ''There was a girl''\\
''& there was a man''\\
''And there was the girl's father who said,''\\
''"You will marry this man."''
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The second wife survives, and her husband dies a KarmicDeath by being violently murdered by his first wife, whom he killed to inherit her mansion and wealth. However, the second wife is understandably traumatized by the entire ordeal, and she proceeds to vomit out of fear-fueled stress]].
* TheBluebeard: The premise of the story draws on the legend of Bluebeard. [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage,Wife #2 the second wife finds pieces of Wife #1 the first wife hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. [[UngratefulBastard Wife #1 The first wife is not as grateful as one might expect]].]]]]
* BreakTheCutie: Happens to the second wife. [[spoiler:Being nearly killed by the vengeful corpse of the first wife and listening to her husband's dying screams as he is gruesomely murdered by the first wife leaves the second wife with quite a bit of trauma. This is symbolized by her eyes turning into creepy dark eyeshadows and her previously immaculate hairstyle coming undone by the end]].
* CreepyLongFingers: Having been dead for some time now, the first wife possesses extremely boney, shriveled fingers as a consequence of her advanced decay.
* DeathByWomanScorned: [[spoiler:The husband dies at the hands of his first wife, who is furious with him for murdering her and became violently possessive of him after her death. It also counts as a KarmicDeath]].
--> ''There was a girl''\\
''& there was a man''\\
''And there was the girl's father who said,''\\
''"You will marry this man."''
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:The second wife survives, and her husband dies a KarmicDeath by being violently murdered by his first wife, whom he killed to inherit her mansion and wealth. However, the second wife is understandably traumatized by the entire ordeal, and she proceeds to vomit out of fear-fueled stress]].
* TheBluebeard: The premise of the story draws on the legend of Bluebeard. [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage,
* BreakTheCutie: Happens to the second wife. [[spoiler:Being nearly killed by the vengeful corpse of the first wife and listening to her husband's dying screams as he is gruesomely murdered by the first wife leaves the second wife with quite a bit of trauma. This is symbolized by her eyes turning into creepy dark eyeshadows and her previously immaculate hairstyle coming undone by the end]].
* CreepyLongFingers: Having been dead for some time now, the first wife possesses extremely boney, shriveled fingers as a consequence of her advanced decay.
* DeathByWomanScorned: [[spoiler:The husband dies at the hands of his first wife, who is furious with him for murdering her and became violently possessive of him after her death. It also counts as a KarmicDeath]].
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:We never see the husband's violent death upon meeting his first wife's corpse, only that one of the mansion's windows became heavily smeared with his blood after returning home from a hunt]].
* KarmicDeath: It's heavily implied that [[spoiler:the husband took his first wife for granted and then murdered her to have her wealth and mansion all to himself. He eventually dies a gruesome death at the hands of his first wife after his second wife reassembles her dismembered corpse, the first wife having become violently possessive of the husband after death]].
* KarmicDeath: It's heavily implied that [[spoiler:the husband took his first wife for granted and then murdered her to have her wealth and mansion all to himself. He eventually dies a gruesome death at the hands of his first wife after his second wife reassembles her dismembered corpse, the first wife having become violently possessive of the husband after death]].
* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler:The first wife tries murdering the second wife out of furious jealousy, believing the second wife replaced her as the husband's wife and rightful owner of the mansion they lived in. This is despite the fact that the second wife had nothing to do with her husband's crimes and only helped reassemble the first wife's corpse out of symapthy]].
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The protagonist, a young woman in an ArrangedMarriage, finds pieces of her husband's murdered first wife concealed all over the house. [[spoiler:Wife #2 reassembles Wife #1, which appears to be what the corpse wants. Unfortunately, now that she's reassembled, Wife #1's first goal is to kill Wife #2 so she can have her husband all to herself.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The protagonist, a young woman in an ArrangedMarriage, finds pieces of her husband's murdered first wife concealed all over the house. [[spoiler:Wife #2 reassembles Wife #1, which appears Wife #2 (and the reader) assumes to be what the corpse wants. Unfortunately, now that she's reassembled, Wife #1's first goal is to kill Wife #2 so she can have her husband all to herself.]]]]
* NightmareFace: The first wife is reduced to a dismembered corpse, with her (presumably) once-beautiful face decayed to the point where her nose is a hole, her lips have mostly withered away, and her eyes are just empty sockets now. [[spoiler:It becomes even scarier when she is revived through the reassembling of her corpse and reveals herself to be a scorned, violently possessive woman]].
* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:The murdered first wife believes the second wife replaced her as lover of her husband and rightful owner of the mansion. She tries to murder the second wife, but fortunately the second wife manages to flee]].
* RippingOffTheStringOfPearls: [[spoiler:The first wife tries murdering the second wife, but the second wife flees, so the first wife ends up ripping the fancy necklace and brooch she once wore in life from the second wife's neck. It likely symbolizes the second wife's discovery of the grisly truth regarding the first wife's intentions, and her subsequent loss of her innocence]].
* VomitIndiscretionshot: Happens at the end of the story: [[spoiler:After managing to evade being killed by the first wife's vengeful corpse, the second wife flees the mansion and listens to her husband's dying screams as he meets a bloody end at the hands of first wife, whom he murdered years before. The sheer fright and trauma of the ordeal understandably causes the second wife to vomit on-panel]].
* NightmareFace: The first wife is reduced to a dismembered corpse, with her (presumably) once-beautiful face decayed to the point where her nose is a hole, her lips have mostly withered away, and her eyes are just empty sockets now. [[spoiler:It becomes even scarier when she is revived through the reassembling of her corpse and reveals herself to be a scorned, violently possessive woman]].
* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler:The murdered first wife believes the second wife replaced her as lover of her husband and rightful owner of the mansion. She tries to murder the second wife, but fortunately the second wife manages to flee]].
* RippingOffTheStringOfPearls: [[spoiler:The first wife tries murdering the second wife, but the second wife flees, so the first wife ends up ripping the fancy necklace and brooch she once wore in life from the second wife's neck. It likely symbolizes the second wife's discovery of the grisly truth regarding the first wife's intentions, and her subsequent loss of her innocence]].
* VomitIndiscretionshot: Happens at the end of the story: [[spoiler:After managing to evade being killed by the first wife's vengeful corpse, the second wife flees the mansion and listens to her husband's dying screams as he meets a bloody end at the hands of first wife, whom he murdered years before. The sheer fright and trauma of the ordeal understandably causes the second wife to vomit on-panel]].
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* "An Introduction": A short introductory comic to set the mood, in which the author recalls reading in bed at night as a child.
* "Webcomic/HisFaceAllRed": When a monster starts killing the village's livestock, a pair of brothers go into the woods to hunt it. Only the younger brother returns... until a week later, when he sees his older brother whom he murdered walk out of the woods and act as though nothing had happened.
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* "Webcomic/HisFaceAllRed": When a monster starts killing the village's livestock, a pair of brothers go into the woods to hunt it. Only the younger brother returns... until a week later, when he sees his older brother whom he murdered walk out of the woods and act as though nothing had happened.
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* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: Carroll recounts reading in the dark of her room at night, and being afraid to reach past the edge of the bed to turn off the light, for fear that something would reach up to grab her.
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* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: Carroll recounts reading in the dark of her room at night, and being afraid to reach past the edge of the bed to turn off the light, for fear that something would reach up to grab her.
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* NamelessNarrative: None of the characters are named.
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp:[[spoiler:Bell tells the monster that its children would be at danger of this (among other things) if they went to live in the city. This leaves the monster so afraid that it changes its mind and decides to stay away from the city to protect its children]].
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp:[[spoiler:Bell TheyWouldCutYouUp: [[spoiler:Bell tells the monster that its children would be at danger of this (among other things) if they went to live in the city. This leaves the monster so afraid that it changes its mind and decides to stay away from the city to protect its children]].
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* DarkIsNotEvil: From what little is shown, the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile who haunts the three sisters from "Our Neighbor's House" is dressed in black, including his hat. [[spoiler:He's also implied to be TheGrimReaper who comes to take the girls into the afterlife after they die during a snowstorm. Both Mary and Hannah say kind words about him, and is seen tenderly hugging Hannah when he takes her. Beth is afraid of the man at first, but she accepts him putting his hat on her head when they meet at the neighbor's house, possibly symbolizing her accepting that she's dead and is now able to reunite with her dead family]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: From what little is shown, the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile who haunts the three sisters from "Our Neighbor's House" is dressed in black, including his hat. [[spoiler:He's also implied to be TheGrimReaper who comes to take the girls into the afterlife after they die during a snowstorm. Both Mary and Hannah say kind words about him, and is seen tenderly hugging Hannah when he takes her. Beth is afraid of the man at first, but she accepts him putting his hat on her head when they meet at the neighbor's house, possibly symbolizing her accepting that she's dead and is now able to reunite with her dead family]].
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* DarkIsNotEvil: From what little is shown, the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile who haunts the three sisters
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* DisappearedDad: Justified in "Our Neighbor's House". [[spoiler:The father of the the three girls died from the extreme cold after going out hunting for food in the woods]].
* DontFearTheReaper: In "Our Neighbor's House", [[spoiler:the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile is implied to be TheGrimReaper, but he's a completely non-malicious entity who only seeks to usher in the souls of those who died during an extreme snowstorm, including the three girls. Mary and Hannah are happy when they speak of him and even wait for him when he approaches, and in one panel Hannah is seen hugging the man like old friends. Beth is afraid of him at first. But once they meet at the neighbor's house, Beth comes to accept the man when he kindly plants his hat on her head and lets her enter the house, where she reunites with her dead parents and sisters]].
* TheGrimReaper: [[spoiler:One of the interpretations of who the man in the wide-brimmed hat is in "Our Neighbor's House". It's likely that the region was hit by such a hard snowstorm that many died of hypothermia, including the three sisters and their father. Death came to collect Mary and Hannah and is waiting at the neighbor's house when Beth arrives, as the neighbor has died too]].
* DontFearTheReaper: In "Our Neighbor's House", [[spoiler:the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile is implied to be TheGrimReaper, but he's a completely non-malicious entity who only seeks to usher in the souls of those who died during an extreme snowstorm, including the three girls. Mary and Hannah are happy when they speak of him and even wait for him when he approaches, and in one panel Hannah is seen hugging the man like old friends. Beth is afraid of him at first. But once they meet at the neighbor's house, Beth comes to accept the man when he kindly plants his hat on her head and lets her enter the house, where she reunites with her dead parents and sisters]].
* TheGrimReaper: [[spoiler:One of the interpretations of who the man in the wide-brimmed hat is in "Our Neighbor's House". It's likely that the region was hit by such a hard snowstorm that many died of hypothermia, including the three sisters and their father. Death came to collect Mary and Hannah and is waiting at the neighbor's house when Beth arrives, as the neighbor has died too]].
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* DisappearedDad: Justified in "Our Neighbor's House".Justified. [[spoiler:The father of the the three girls died from the extreme cold after going out hunting for food in the woods]].
* DontFearTheReaper:In "Our Neighbor's House", [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:The man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile is implied to be TheGrimReaper, but he's a completely non-malicious entity who only seeks to usher in the souls of those who died during an extreme snowstorm, including the three girls. Mary and Hannah are happy when they speak of him and even wait for him when he approaches, and in one panel Hannah is seen hugging the man like old friends. Beth is afraid of him at first. But once they meet at the neighbor's house, Beth comes to accept the man when he kindly plants his hat on her head and lets her enter the house, where she reunites with her dead parents and sisters]].
* TheGrimReaper: [[spoiler:One of the interpretations of who the man in the wide-brimmed hatis in "Our Neighbor's House".is. It's likely that the region was hit by such a hard snowstorm that many died of hypothermia, including the three sisters and their father. Death came to collect Mary and Hannah and is waiting at the neighbor's house when Beth arrives, as the neighbor has died too]].
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* TheGrimReaper: [[spoiler:One of the interpretations of who the man in the wide-brimmed hat
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* OnlySaneMan: The middle sister, Beth, from "Our Neighbor's House". The older sister, Mary, is in denial about their father when he fails to return and refuses to leave their house, only to subsequently fall under the spell of the man with the wide hat and the big smile. The little sister, Hannah, is just a poor kid who doesn't know what's going on.
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* OnlySaneMan: The middle sister, Beth, from "Our Neighbor's House".Beth. The older sister, Mary, is in denial about their father when he fails to return and refuses to leave their house, only to subsequently fall under the spell of the man with the wide hat and the big smile. The little sister, Hannah, is just a poor kid who doesn't know what's going on.
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* ArrangedMarriage: The main character enters one with her husband, a wealthy man.
* TheBluebeard: The premise of the story draws on this legend. [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. [[UngratefulBastard Wife #1 is not as grateful as one might expect]].]]
* TheBluebeard: The premise of the story draws on this legend. [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. [[UngratefulBastard Wife #1 is not as grateful as one might expect]].]]
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* ArrangedMarriage: The main character enters one an arranged marriage with her husband, a wealthy man.
* TheBluebeard: The premise of the story draws onthis legend.the legend of Bluebeard. [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. [[UngratefulBastard Wife #1 is not as grateful as one might expect]].]]
* TheBluebeard: The premise of the story draws on
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* LoveMartyr: The [[spoiler:murdered wife]] of "A Lady's Hands are Cold" was one. She willingly gave everything she had to her lover, who murdered her after marrying her in order to take her wealth for himself. Tragically deconstructed, [[spoiler:because once the second wife finds the pieces of her body hidden throughout the manor and puts the first wife's body back together, the first wife is ''still'' a LoveMartyr to the husband, and tries to kill the second wife so she can have him all over again.]]
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* LoveMartyr: The [[spoiler:murdered wife]] of "A Lady's Hands are Cold" was one. She willingly gave everything she had to her lover, who murdered her after marrying her in order to take her wealth for himself. Tragically deconstructed, [[spoiler:because once the second wife finds the pieces of her body hidden throughout the manor and puts the first wife's body back together, the first wife is ''still'' a LoveMartyr to the husband, and tries to kill the second wife so she can have him all over again.]]
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* BodySnatcher: [[spoiler:The monster of "The Nesting Place" is this... and looking for new hosts for its children as well. Bell is nearly taken, but she scares the monster into leaving her alone by telling her stories about what the city will do to its children once their presence is discovered. Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said of Clarence, who was revealed to be a host by the story's end]].
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* BodySnatcher: [[spoiler:The monster of "The Nesting Place" is this... has taken over Rebecca's body... and is looking for new hosts for its children as well. Bell is nearly taken, but she scares the monster into leaving her alone by telling her stories about what the city will do to its children once their presence is discovered. Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said of Clarence, who was revealed to be a host by the story's end]].
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* FaceStealer: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:the monster kills people and then [[BodySnatcher inhabits their bodies]], pretending to be them. "She" initially tries taking Bell with this intention, but then Bell exploits the fact that MonsterIsAMommy by telling "Rebecca" of the horrors she and her children will experience once they actually get to the city, frightening the monster so much that "she" leaves Bell alone. But then at the end of the story, Bell discovers Clarence has become a host, too...]]
* MonsterIsAMommy: In "The Nesting Place", where [[spoiler:"Rebecca" is actually a mass of worms inside Rebecca's stolen skin and wants Bell's skin for her children, so they can leave their spawning pool]]. Bell seizes on this and saves herself by horrifying the monster with stories of the dangers its children would face in the city.
* MonsterIsAMommy: In "The Nesting Place", where [[spoiler:"Rebecca" is actually a mass of worms inside Rebecca's stolen skin and wants Bell's skin for her children, so they can leave their spawning pool]]. Bell seizes on this and saves herself by horrifying the monster with stories of the dangers its children would face in the city.
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* FaceStealer: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:the [[spoiler:The monster kills people and then [[BodySnatcher inhabits their bodies]], pretending to be them. "She" initially tries taking Bell with this intention, but then Bell exploits the fact that MonsterIsAMommy by telling "Rebecca" of the horrors she and her children will experience once they actually get to the city, frightening the monster so much that "she" leaves Bell alone. But then at the end of the story, Bell discovers Clarence has become a host, too...]]
* MonsterIsAMommy:In "The Nesting Place", where [[spoiler:"Rebecca" is actually a mass of worms inside Rebecca's stolen skin and wants Bell's skin for her children, so they can leave their spawning pool]]. Bell seizes on this and saves herself by horrifying the monster with stories of the dangers its children would face in the city.
* MonsterIsAMommy:
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* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: The final story 'In Conclusion' features a version of Red Riding Hood (implied to be a semi-autobiographical of Carroll herself as a child.) The girl passes through the woods without incident to her mother's house, and as she's settling down to sleep she remarks that she knew the wolf wouldn't find her.
* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: The final story 'In Conclusion' features a version of Red Riding Hood (implied to be a semi-autobiographical of Carroll herself as a child.) The girl passes through the woods without incident to her mother's house, and as she's settling down to sleep she remarks that she knew the wolf wouldn't find her.
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* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: The
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* ThatsNoMoon: As the girl in "In Conclusion" settles down to sleep with the moon watching over her, she muses that she knew the wolf wouldn't find her. The following page reveals the "moon" to be one of the wolf's eyes.
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* ThatsNoMoon: As the girl in "In Conclusion" settles down to sleep with the moon watching over her, she muses that she knew the wolf wouldn't find her. The following page reveals the "moon" to be one of the wolf's eyes.
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* SanitySlippage: Janna is gradually undergoing one, complete with a [[RoomFullOfCrazy Diary Full of Crazy]].
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* SanitySlippage: Janna is gradually undergoing one, losing her grip on reality, complete with a [[RoomFullOfCrazy Diary Full of Crazy]].
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-->--'''The Younger Brother''', ''Webcomic/HisFaceAllRed''
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-->--'''The Younger Brother''', ''WebComic/HisFaceAllRed''
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-->--'''The Younger Brother''', ''WebComic/HisFaceAllRed''
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Tropes are listed below by story. As ''WebComic/HisFaceAllRed'' has its own page, any tropes specific to that story should go on that page.
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Tropes are listed below by story. As ''WebComic/HisFaceAllRed'' ''Webcomic/HisFaceAllRed'' has its own page, any tropes specific to that story should go on that page.
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* "His Face All Red" makes frequent mention of strange things coming form the woods. Nobody bats an eye at the thought of a monster coming out of the woods to attack their livestock, and later it seems that [[spoiler:a {{Doppelganger}} of the murdered brother comes out of the woods and begins trying to take the brother's place.]]
* During "In Conclusion", the young girl confidently ignores the dangers of the woods and makes it to her mother's house without incident. Actually seeing just how dangerous the woods can be, however, seems to deeply traumatize and terrify her.
* During "In Conclusion", the young girl confidently ignores the dangers of the woods and makes it to her mother's house without incident. Actually seeing just how dangerous the woods can be, however, seems to deeply traumatize and terrify her.
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* ExhaustedEyeBags: As Janna's breakdown progresses, she develops these.
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* ExhaustedEyeBags: As Janna's breakdown progresses, she develops these.bags under her eyes.
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->''It came from the woods. Most strange things do.''
-->--'''The Younger Brother''', ''WebComic/HisFaceAllRed''
-->--'''The Younger Brother''', ''WebComic/HisFaceAllRed''
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The stories include:
* "Our Neighbor's House": A father goes hunting, but before he leaves he tells his three daughters to go to their neighbor's house if he doesn't return after three days. After three days, strange things begin happening...
* "Our Neighbor's House": A father goes hunting, but before he leaves he tells his three daughters to go to their neighbor's house if he doesn't return after three days. After three days, strange things begin happening...
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* "Our Neighbor's House":A In the middle of a cold, snowy winter, a father of three girls goes hunting, hunting for food, but before he leaves he tells his three daughters to go to their neighbor's house if he doesn't return after three days. After When he doesn't return after three days, strange things begin happening...
* "Our Neighbor's House":
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* "Webcomic/HisFaceAllRed": When a monster starts killing the village's livestock, a pair of brothers go into the woods to hunt it. Only the younger brother returns... until a week later, when he sees the older brother he murdered walk out of the woods as though nothing had happened.
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* "Webcomic/HisFaceAllRed": When a monster starts killing the village's livestock, a pair of brothers go into the woods to hunt it. Only the younger brother returns... until a week later, when he sees the his older brother whom he murdered walk out of the woods and act as though nothing had happened.
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** In "The Nesting Place", Bell is explicitly warned against the woods near the house of Clarence and Rebecca. [[spoiler:She ignores the warnings and ends up discovering a cave pool where "Rebecca" has become a host for a monster that kills and inhabits people's bodies, and has been looking for other victims for her chilren to inhabit]].
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** In "The Nesting Place", Bell is explicitly warned against the woods near the house of Clarence and Rebecca. [[spoiler:She ignores the warnings and ends up discovering a cave pool where "Rebecca" has become a host for a monster that kills and inhabits people's bodies, and has been looking for other victims for her chilren children to inhabit]].inhabit]].
* "His Face All Red" makes frequent mention of strange things coming form the woods. Nobody bats an eye at the thought of a monster coming out of the woods to attack their livestock, and later it seems that [[spoiler:a {{Doppelganger}} of the murdered brother comes out of the woods and begins trying to take the brother's place.]]
* During "In Conclusion", the young girl confidently ignores the dangers of the woods and makes it to her mother's house without incident. Actually seeing just how dangerous the woods can be, however, seems to deeply traumatize and terrify her.
* "His Face All Red" makes frequent mention of strange things coming form the woods. Nobody bats an eye at the thought of a monster coming out of the woods to attack their livestock, and later it seems that [[spoiler:a {{Doppelganger}} of the murdered brother comes out of the woods and begins trying to take the brother's place.]]
* During "In Conclusion", the young girl confidently ignores the dangers of the woods and makes it to her mother's house without incident. Actually seeing just how dangerous the woods can be, however, seems to deeply traumatize and terrify her.
* DeadAllAlong: One possible interpretation of the story. [[spoiler:The winter cold and lack of food killed all of the girls sometime between when their father left and when Beth makes a last ditch effort to travel to their neighbor's house. The story then consists of the girls accepting one by one that they are dead before the man with the wide-brimmed hat (in other words, TheGrimReaper) can collect them and help them to move on.]]
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Janna and Yvonne. Yvonne says Janna is like a sister to her or more, since she doesn't get along with her own sisters as well as she does with her friend.
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* AdultFear: Most of the story consists of Yvonne watching her best friend and closest companion slowly deteriorate and suffer a mental breakdown, and Yvonne has no idea how to help. Worse yet, Janna makes an unusual outreach for help, showing up at Yvonne's window late one night, only for a tired Yvonne to turn her away, and then Janna disappears. The parallels with a friend becoming suicidal and then actually committing suicide are pretty clear.
* ExhaustedEyeBags: As Janna's breakdown progresses, she develops these.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Posing as a psychic was a fun game, even if the girls realized it was also a little cruel and childish. They figured people would stop coming soon... except they didn't stop coming to see Janna and wouldn't take no for an answer. The two soon found themselves trapped in their lie, with no way to stop the act, and afraid to admit they had been lying all along because of how people might turn on them afterwards.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Janna and Yvonne. Yvonne says Janna is like a sister to her or more, since she doesn't get along with her ownsisters sister as well as she does with her friend.friend.
* {{Irony}}: At one point when thinking of the people who come to see her and Janna, Yvonne marvels at how much emotional energy they spend on people who can no longer appreciate it and for whom it does no good. At the end, [[spoiler:after Janna has possibly been killed and her body disappeared, Yvonne thinks about her Janna will always be her friend. It's implied that it's this kind of outpouring of energy that allows the "ghost" to haunt her.]]
* ExhaustedEyeBags: As Janna's breakdown progresses, she develops these.
* GoneHorriblyWrong: Posing as a psychic was a fun game, even if the girls realized it was also a little cruel and childish. They figured people would stop coming soon... except they didn't stop coming to see Janna and wouldn't take no for an answer. The two soon found themselves trapped in their lie, with no way to stop the act, and afraid to admit they had been lying all along because of how people might turn on them afterwards.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Janna and Yvonne. Yvonne says Janna is like a sister to her or more, since she doesn't get along with her own
* {{Irony}}: At one point when thinking of the people who come to see her and Janna, Yvonne marvels at how much emotional energy they spend on people who can no longer appreciate it and for whom it does no good. At the end, [[spoiler:after Janna has possibly been killed and her body disappeared, Yvonne thinks about her Janna will always be her friend. It's implied that it's this kind of outpouring of energy that allows the "ghost" to haunt her.]]
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* TheUnReveal: What is actually going on with Janna? Is the ghost that Yvonne sees actually a ghost, or is it something else, as she speculates when she first sees it? (Perhaps an embodiment of some sort of trauma, grief, or loss?) And at the end when Yvonne now has one haunting her, is it the same spirit, or is it Janna's ghost haunting her?
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!!Tropes:
* AllTakeAndNoGive: Strongly implied of the husband in "A Lady's Hands are Cold". [[spoiler:When the body of the husband's first wife is put back together, she claims that the estate was originally hers, and she willingly gave everything to her husband, who regardless went ahead with marrying and then murdering her to have it all for himself. Only her extremely violent and unreasonable behavior (she thinks the second wife intends to replace and "usurp" her) casts any doubts on the reliability of her story.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: The main character of "A Lady's Hands Are Cold" enters one.
* TheBluebeard: "A Lady's Hands are Cold" draws on this legend. [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. [[UngratefulBastard Wife #1 is not as grateful as one might expect]].]]
* BodyHorror: "The Nesting Place" is full of it. While it's not quite certain if it's literally as bad as the art suggests or if what we see on the page is a way to convey the horror that Bell feels (as we see it through her eyes), the implication is that reality is at least fairly close to the artwork.
* BodySnatcher: [[spoiler:The monster of "The Nesting Place" is this... and looking for new hosts for its children as well.]]
* ChekhovsGag: Done for very dark/ironic comedy in "The Nesting Place". When Clarence first picks up Bell, he talks about going swimming in the ponds and creeks in the area. When Bell protests about getting leeches doing that, Clarence jokes about how a leech is just a friend you haven't met yet. [[spoiler:Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a parasite living inside a skin suit pretending to be human, and came from a pool of water inside a cave]]. And as the last page of the story reveals, [[spoiler:another of these parasites has taken over Clarence's body.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: From what little is shown, the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile who haunts the three sisters from "Our Neighbor's House" is dressed in black, including his hat. [[spoiler:He's also implied to be TheGrimReaper who comes to take the girls into the afterlife after they die during a snowstorm. Both Mary and Hannah say kind words about him, and is seen tenderly hugging Hannah when he takes her. Beth is afraid of the man at first, but she accepts him putting his hat on her head when they meet at the neighbor's house, possibly symbolizing her accepting that she's dead and is now able to reunite with her dead family]].
* DisappearedDad: Justified in "Our Neighbor's House". [[spoiler:The father of the the three girls died from the extreme cold after going out hunting for food in the woods]].
* DontFearTheReaper: In "Our Neighbor's House", [[spoiler:the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile is implied to be TheGrimReaper, but he's a completely non-malicious entity who only seeks to usher in the souls of those who died during an extreme snowstorm, including the three girls. Mary and Hannah are happy when they speak of him and even wait for him when he approaches, and in one panel Hannah is seen hugging the man like old friends. Beth is afraid of him at first. But once they meet at the neighbor's house, Beth comes to accept the man when he kindly plants his hat on her head and lets her enter the house, where she reunites with her dead parents and sisters]].
* AllTakeAndNoGive: Strongly implied of the husband in "A Lady's Hands are Cold". [[spoiler:When the body of the husband's first wife is put back together, she claims that the estate was originally hers, and she willingly gave everything to her husband, who regardless went ahead with marrying and then murdering her to have it all for himself. Only her extremely violent and unreasonable behavior (she thinks the second wife intends to replace and "usurp" her) casts any doubts on the reliability of her story.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: The main character of "A Lady's Hands Are Cold" enters one.
* TheBluebeard: "A Lady's Hands are Cold" draws on this legend. [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. [[UngratefulBastard Wife #1 is not as grateful as one might expect]].]]
* BodyHorror: "The Nesting Place" is full of it. While it's not quite certain if it's literally as bad as the art suggests or if what we see on the page is a way to convey the horror that Bell feels (as we see it through her eyes), the implication is that reality is at least fairly close to the artwork.
* BodySnatcher: [[spoiler:The monster of "The Nesting Place" is this... and looking for new hosts for its children as well.]]
* ChekhovsGag: Done for very dark/ironic comedy in "The Nesting Place". When Clarence first picks up Bell, he talks about going swimming in the ponds and creeks in the area. When Bell protests about getting leeches doing that, Clarence jokes about how a leech is just a friend you haven't met yet. [[spoiler:Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a parasite living inside a skin suit pretending to be human, and came from a pool of water inside a cave]]. And as the last page of the story reveals, [[spoiler:another of these parasites has taken over Clarence's body.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: From what little is shown, the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile who haunts the three sisters from "Our Neighbor's House" is dressed in black, including his hat. [[spoiler:He's also implied to be TheGrimReaper who comes to take the girls into the afterlife after they die during a snowstorm. Both Mary and Hannah say kind words about him, and is seen tenderly hugging Hannah when he takes her. Beth is afraid of the man at first, but she accepts him putting his hat on her head when they meet at the neighbor's house, possibly symbolizing her accepting that she's dead and is now able to reunite with her dead family]].
* DisappearedDad: Justified in "Our Neighbor's House". [[spoiler:The father of the the three girls died from the extreme cold after going out hunting for food in the woods]].
* DontFearTheReaper: In "Our Neighbor's House", [[spoiler:the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile is implied to be TheGrimReaper, but he's a completely non-malicious entity who only seeks to usher in the souls of those who died during an extreme snowstorm, including the three girls. Mary and Hannah are happy when they speak of him and even wait for him when he approaches, and in one panel Hannah is seen hugging the man like old friends. Beth is afraid of him at first. But once they meet at the neighbor's house, Beth comes to accept the man when he kindly plants his hat on her head and lets her enter the house, where she reunites with her dead parents and sisters]].
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* ArrangedMarriage: The main character of "A Lady's Hands Are Cold" enters one.
* TheBluebeard: "A Lady's Hands are Cold" draws on this legend. [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. [[UngratefulBastard Wife #1 is not as grateful as one might expect]].]]
* BodyHorror: "The Nesting Place" is full of it. While it's not quite certain if it's literally as bad as the art suggests or if what we see on the page is a way to convey the horror that Bell feels (as we see it through her eyes), the implication is that reality is at least fairly close to the artwork.
* BodySnatcher: [[spoiler:The monster of "The Nesting Place" is this... and looking for new hosts for its children as well.]]
* ChekhovsGag: Done for very dark/ironic comedy in "The Nesting Place". When Clarence first picks up Bell, he talks about going swimming in the ponds and creeks in the area. When Bell protests about getting leeches doing that, Clarence jokes about how a leech is just a friend you haven't met yet. [[spoiler:Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a parasite living inside a skin suit pretending to be human, and came from a pool of water inside a cave]]. And as the last page of the story reveals, [[spoiler:another of these parasites has taken over Clarence's body.]]
* DarkIsNotEvil: From what little is shown, the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile who haunts the three sisters from "Our Neighbor's House" is dressed in black, including his hat. [[spoiler:He's also implied to be TheGrimReaper who comes to take the girls into the afterlife after they die during a snowstorm. Both Mary and Hannah say kind words about him, and is seen tenderly hugging Hannah when he takes her. Beth is afraid of the man at first, but she accepts him putting his hat on her head when they meet at the neighbor's house, possibly symbolizing her accepting that she's dead and is now able to reunite with her dead family]].
* DisappearedDad: Justified in "Our Neighbor's House". [[spoiler:The father of the the three girls died from the extreme cold after going out hunting for food in the woods]].
* DontFearTheReaper: In "Our Neighbor's House", [[spoiler:the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile is implied to be TheGrimReaper, but he's a completely non-malicious entity who only seeks to usher in the souls of those who died during an extreme snowstorm, including the three girls. Mary and Hannah are happy when they speak of him and even wait for him when he approaches, and in one panel Hannah is seen hugging the man like old friends. Beth is afraid of him at first. But once they meet at the neighbor's house, Beth comes to accept the man when he kindly plants his hat on her head and lets her enter the house, where she reunites with her dead parents and sisters]].
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* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: The final story 'In Conclusion' features a version of Red Riding Hood (implied to be a semi-autobiographical of Carroll herself as a child.) The girl passes through the woods without incident to her mother's house, and as she's settling down to sleep she remarks that she knew the wolf wouldn't find her.
--> "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 the ''wolf''...the wolf only needs enough luck to find you ''' ''ONCE.'' ''' "
* FaceStealer: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:the monster kills people and then [[BodySnatcher inhabits their bodies]], pretending to be them. "She" initially tries taking Bell with this intention, but then Bell exploits the fact that MonsterIsAMommy by telling "Rebecca" of the horrors she and her children will experience once they actually get to the city, frightening the monster so much that "she" leaves Bell alone. But then at the end of the story, Bell discovers Clarence has become a host, too...]]
* GhostlyGoals: The girl who has been married to the wealthy man in "A Lady's Hands are Cold" hears a ghostly voice singing every night about giving everything to her love only to be murdered by him, and how she will never know peace until she is whole again. So she would seem to be the benign version, simply looking to have her body reassembled and perhaps buried properly or possibly vengeful against her killer, since her song mentions being unavenged. [[spoiler:When the second wife collects the piece of the first wife's body and puts them together, it turns out the first wife is still violently obsessed with the man she loved, and attacks the second wife for "replacing" her.]]
--> "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 the ''wolf''...the wolf only needs enough luck to find you ''' ''ONCE.'' ''' "
* FaceStealer: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:the monster kills people and then [[BodySnatcher inhabits their bodies]], pretending to be them. "She" initially tries taking Bell with this intention, but then Bell exploits the fact that MonsterIsAMommy by telling "Rebecca" of the horrors she and her children will experience once they actually get to the city, frightening the monster so much that "she" leaves Bell alone. But then at the end of the story, Bell discovers Clarence has become a host, too...]]
* GhostlyGoals: The girl who has been married to the wealthy man in "A Lady's Hands are Cold" hears a ghostly voice singing every night about giving everything to her love only to be murdered by him, and how she will never know peace until she is whole again. So she would seem to be the benign version, simply looking to have her body reassembled and perhaps buried properly or possibly vengeful against her killer, since her song mentions being unavenged. [[spoiler:When the second wife collects the piece of the first wife's body and puts them together, it turns out the first wife is still violently obsessed with the man she loved, and attacks the second wife for "replacing" her.]]
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*EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: The final story 'In Conclusion' features DarkIsNotEvil: From what little is shown, the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a version of Red Riding Hood (implied toothy smile who haunts the three sisters from "Our Neighbor's House" is dressed in black, including his hat. [[spoiler:He's also implied to be a semi-autobiographical of Carroll herself as a child.) The girl passes through TheGrimReaper who comes to take the woods without incident to girls into the afterlife after they die during a snowstorm. Both Mary and Hannah say kind words about him, and is seen tenderly hugging Hannah when he takes her. Beth is afraid of the man at first, but she accepts him putting his hat on her mother's head when they meet at the neighbor's house, and as possibly symbolizing her accepting that she's settling down dead and is now able to sleep she remarks that she knew reunite with her dead family]].
* DisappearedDad: Justified in "Our Neighbor's House". [[spoiler:The father of thewolf wouldn't find her.
--> "Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again..." said a shadow atthe window. "...and you must be lucky to avoid three girls died from the wolf every time...\\
Butextreme cold after going out hunting for food in the ''wolf''...the wolf only needs enough luck to find you ''' ''ONCE.'' ''' "
woods]].
*FaceStealer: DontFearTheReaper: In "The Nesting Place", "Our Neighbor's House", [[spoiler:the monster kills people man with the wide-brimmed hat and then [[BodySnatcher inhabits their bodies]], pretending a toothy smile is implied to be them. "She" initially tries taking Bell with this intention, TheGrimReaper, but then Bell exploits he's a completely non-malicious entity who only seeks to usher in the fact that MonsterIsAMommy by telling "Rebecca" souls of those who died during an extreme snowstorm, including the horrors she three girls. Mary and her children will experience Hannah are happy when they speak of him and even wait for him when he approaches, and in one panel Hannah is seen hugging the man like old friends. Beth is afraid of him at first. But once they actually get to the city, frightening the monster so much that "she" leaves Bell alone. But then meet at the end of the story, Bell discovers Clarence has become a host, too...]]
* GhostlyGoals: The girl who has been marriedneighbor's house, Beth comes to the wealthy man in "A Lady's Hands are Cold" hears a ghostly voice singing every night about giving everything to her love only to be murdered by him, and how she will never know peace until she is whole again. So she would seem to be the benign version, simply looking to have her body reassembled and perhaps buried properly or possibly vengeful against her killer, since her song mentions being unavenged. [[spoiler:When the second wife collects the piece of the first wife's body and puts them together, it turns out the first wife is still violently obsessed with accept the man when he kindly plants his hat on her head and lets her enter the house, where she loved, reunites with her dead parents and attacks the second wife for "replacing" her.]]sisters]].
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Janna and Yvonne of "My Friend Janna". Yvonne says Janna is like a sister to her or more, since she doesn't get along with her own sisters as well as she does with her friend.
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Janna HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler:The man who haunts the three girls is described with minimal detail, his only traits being his wide-brimmed hat and Yvonne his toothy smile. The ending implies that he's actually TheGrimReaper (though a [[DontFearTheReaper pretty nice one]]) who has come to usher the girls into the afterlife after they all die during a harsh snowstorm]].
* OnlySaneMan: The middle sister, Beth, from "Our Neighbor's House". The older sister, Mary, is in denial about their father when he fails to return and refuses to leave their house, only to subsequently fall under the spell of"My Friend Janna". Yvonne says Janna the man with the wide hat and the big smile. The little sister, Hannah, is like just a sister to her or more, since she poor kid who doesn't get along know what's going on.
* ParentalAbandonment: Justified. The three girls' mother died before the story started, [[spoiler:and their father soon follows by going out hunting in the woods during a snowstorm]].
* RedIsHeroic: Mary is the middle-born daughter who wears red clothes, and the story is narrated from her prespective.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:After both of her sisters have disappeared with the man with the wide-brimmed hat and toothy smile, the middle sister flees her home to the neighbor's house, despite being without any food and the snow now being much worse than it was several days prior. After an exhausting, dangerous trek, she finally makes it to the neighbor's house... and finds the man with the wide-brimmed hat waiting for her there.]]
* SnowMeansDeath: The story revolves around three girls who live in a village that is hit by a harsh snowstorm. [[spoiler:Their father (and presumably their mother) dies of the cold, and later, the three girls themselves die off one by one; Mary is the last to go after she tries braving a dangerous trek to a neighbor's house in harsh conditions and without food]].
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: This is strongly implied of the husband. [[spoiler:When the body of the husband's first wife is put back together, she claims that the estate was originally hers, and she willingly gave everything to her husband, who regardless went ahead with marrying and then murdering her to have it all for himself. Only her extremely violent and unreasonable behavior (she thinks the second wife intends to replace and "usurp" her) casts any doubts on the reliability of her story.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: The main character enters one with herown sisters husband, a wealthy man.
* TheBluebeard: The premise of the story draws on this legend. [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. [[UngratefulBastard Wife #1 is not aswell grateful as one might expect]].]]
* GhostlyGoals: The main character who got married to the wealthy man in an ArrangedMarriage hears a ghostly voice singing every night about giving everything to her love only to be murdered by him, and how shedoes will never know peace until she is whole again. So she would seem to be the benign version, simply looking to have her body reassembled and perhaps buried properly or possibly vengeful against her killer, since her song mentions being unavenged. [[spoiler:When the second wife collects the piece of the first wife's body and puts them together, it turns out the first wife is still violently obsessed with her friend.the man she loved, and attacks the second wife for "replacing" her.]]
* OnlySaneMan: The middle sister, Beth, from "Our Neighbor's House". The older sister, Mary, is in denial about their father when he fails to return and refuses to leave their house, only to subsequently fall under the spell of
* ParentalAbandonment: Justified. The three girls' mother died before the story started, [[spoiler:and their father soon follows by going out hunting in the woods during a snowstorm]].
* RedIsHeroic: Mary is the middle-born daughter who wears red clothes, and the story is narrated from her prespective.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:After both of her sisters have disappeared with the man with the wide-brimmed hat and toothy smile, the middle sister flees her home to the neighbor's house, despite being without any food and the snow now being much worse than it was several days prior. After an exhausting, dangerous trek, she finally makes it to the neighbor's house... and finds the man with the wide-brimmed hat waiting for her there.]]
* SnowMeansDeath: The story revolves around three girls who live in a village that is hit by a harsh snowstorm. [[spoiler:Their father (and presumably their mother) dies of the cold, and later, the three girls themselves die off one by one; Mary is the last to go after she tries braving a dangerous trek to a neighbor's house in harsh conditions and without food]].
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: This is strongly implied of the husband. [[spoiler:When the body of the husband's first wife is put back together, she claims that the estate was originally hers, and she willingly gave everything to her husband, who regardless went ahead with marrying and then murdering her to have it all for himself. Only her extremely violent and unreasonable behavior (she thinks the second wife intends to replace and "usurp" her) casts any doubts on the reliability of her story.]]
* ArrangedMarriage: The main character enters one with her
* TheBluebeard: The premise of the story draws on this legend. [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. [[UngratefulBastard Wife #1 is not as
* GhostlyGoals: The main character who got married to the wealthy man in an ArrangedMarriage hears a ghostly voice singing every night about giving everything to her love only to be murdered by him, and how she
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The protagonist, a young woman in an ArrangedMarriage, finds pieces of her husband's murdered first wife concealed all over the house. [[spoiler:Wife #2 reassembles Wife #1, which appears to be what the corpse wants. Unfortunately, now that she's reassembled, Wife #1's first goal is to kill Wife #2 so she can have her husband all to herself.]]
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[[folder:''My Friend Janna'']]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Janna and Yvonne. Yvonne says Janna is like a sister to her or more, since she doesn't get along with her own sisters as well as she does with her friend.
* PhonyPsychic: Yvonne and Janna have played at being able to talk to the dead for years. (Janna is the person who acts like a psychic, Yvonne makes sound effects and voices from an unseen location.) It started as a joke when they were kids and was a fun game, but they found they couldn't stop people from coming to them even if they tried. Yvonne, however, [[ISeeDeadPeople can actually see what might be a ghost]] (or might be... ''something'' else) apparently haunting Janna that nobody else can.
* SanitySlippage: Janna is gradually undergoing one, complete with a [[RoomFullOfCrazy Diary Full of Crazy]].
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[[folder:''The Nesting Place'']]
* BodyHorror: What [[spoiler:the monster does to Rebecca's body after taking possession of it. During her confrontation with Bell, the monster twists Rebecca's face into all sorts of horrible shapes in front of Bell, even stretching it back until Rebecca's face is nothing but a gigantic open mouth with worms inside full of 'teeth' at one point]]. While it's not quite certain if it's literally as bad as the art suggests or if what we see on the page is a way to convey the horror that Bell feels (as we see it through her eyes), the implication is that reality is at least fairly close to the artwork.
* BodySnatcher: [[spoiler:The monster of "The Nesting Place" is this... and looking for new hosts for its children as well. Bell is nearly taken, but she scares the monster into leaving her alone by telling her stories about what the city will do to its children once their presence is discovered. Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said of Clarence, who was revealed to be a host by the story's end]].
* ChekhovsGag: Done for very dark/ironic comedy. When Clarence first picks up Bell, he talks about going swimming in the ponds and creeks in the area. When Bell protests about getting leeches doing that, Clarence jokes about how a leech is just a friend you haven't met yet. [[spoiler:Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a parasite living inside a skin suit pretending to be human, and came from a pool of water inside a cave]]. And as the last page of the story reveals, [[spoiler:another of these parasites has taken over Clarence's body.]]
* FaceStealer: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:the monster kills people and then [[BodySnatcher inhabits their bodies]], pretending to be them. "She" initially tries taking Bell with this intention, but then Bell exploits the fact that MonsterIsAMommy by telling "Rebecca" of the horrors she and her children will experience once they actually get to the city, frightening the monster so much that "she" leaves Bell alone. But then at the end of the story, Bell discovers Clarence has become a host, too...]]
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* HeterosexualLifePartners: Janna and Yvonne. Yvonne says Janna is like a sister to her or more, since she doesn't get along with her own sisters as well as she does with her friend.
* PhonyPsychic: Yvonne and Janna have played at being able to talk to the dead for years. (Janna is the person who acts like a psychic, Yvonne makes sound effects and voices from an unseen location.) It started as a joke when they were kids and was a fun game, but they found they couldn't stop people from coming to them even if they tried. Yvonne, however, [[ISeeDeadPeople can actually see what might be a ghost]] (or might be... ''something'' else) apparently haunting Janna that nobody else can.
* SanitySlippage: Janna is gradually undergoing one, complete with a [[RoomFullOfCrazy Diary Full of Crazy]].
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[[folder:''The Nesting Place'']]
* BodyHorror: What [[spoiler:the monster does to Rebecca's body after taking possession of it. During her confrontation with Bell, the monster twists Rebecca's face into all sorts of horrible shapes in front of Bell, even stretching it back until Rebecca's face is nothing but a gigantic open mouth with worms inside full of 'teeth' at one point]]. While it's not quite certain if it's literally as bad as the art suggests or if what we see on the page is a way to convey the horror that Bell feels (as we see it through her eyes), the implication is that reality is at least fairly close to the artwork.
* BodySnatcher: [[spoiler:The monster of "The Nesting Place" is this... and looking for new hosts for its children as well. Bell is nearly taken, but she scares the monster into leaving her alone by telling her stories about what the city will do to its children once their presence is discovered. Unfortunately, the same couldn't be said of Clarence, who was revealed to be a host by the story's end]].
* ChekhovsGag: Done for very dark/ironic comedy. When Clarence first picks up Bell, he talks about going swimming in the ponds and creeks in the area. When Bell protests about getting leeches doing that, Clarence jokes about how a leech is just a friend you haven't met yet. [[spoiler:Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a parasite living inside a skin suit pretending to be human, and came from a pool of water inside a cave]]. And as the last page of the story reveals, [[spoiler:another of these parasites has taken over Clarence's body.]]
* FaceStealer: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:the monster kills people and then [[BodySnatcher inhabits their bodies]], pretending to be them. "She" initially tries taking Bell with this intention, but then Bell exploits the fact that MonsterIsAMommy by telling "Rebecca" of the horrors she and her children will experience once they actually get to the city, frightening the monster so much that "she" leaves Bell alone. But then at the end of the story, Bell discovers Clarence has become a host, too...]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "A Lady's Hands are Cold", the protagonist, a young woman in an ArrangedMarriage, finds pieces of the murdered first wife concealed all over the house. [[spoiler:Wife #2 reassembles Wife #1, which appears to be what the corpse wants. Unfortunately, now that she's reassembled, Wife #1's first goal is to kill Wife #2.]]
* OnlySaneMan: The middle sister, Beth, from "Our Neighbor's House". The older sister, Mary, is in denial about their father when he fails to return and refuses to leave their house, only to subsequently fall under the spell of the man with the wide hat and the big smile. The poor little sister, Hannah is just a kid who doesn't know what's going on.
* PhonyPsychic: Yvonne and Janna from "My Friend Janna" have played at being able to talk to the dead for years. (Janna is the person who acts like a psychic, Yvonne makes sound effects and voices from an unseen location.) It started as a joke when they were kids and was a fun game, but they found they couldn't stop people from coming to them even if they tried. Yvonne, however, [[ISeeDeadPeople can actually see what might be a ghost]] (or might be... ''something'' else) apparently haunting Janna that nobody else can.
* SanitySlippage: Janna is undergoing one in "My Friend Janna", complete with a [[RoomFullOfCrazy Diary Full of Crazy]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: "Our Neighbor's House". [[spoiler:After both of her sisters have disappeared with the man with the wide brimmed hat and toothy smile, the middle sister flees the house without any food and despite the fact that the snow is much worse than it was several days prior. After an exhausting, dangerous trek, she makes it to the neighbor's house... and finds the man waiting for her there.]]
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:Bell saves herself from the monster by convincing it that its plan to use Bell as a host and move to the city, where there would be many more hosts available, would end terribly for its children.]]
* OnlySaneMan: The middle sister, Beth, from "Our Neighbor's House". The older sister, Mary, is in denial about their father when he fails to return and refuses to leave their house, only to subsequently fall under the spell of the man with the wide hat and the big smile. The poor little sister, Hannah is just a kid who doesn't know what's going on.
* PhonyPsychic: Yvonne and Janna from "My Friend Janna" have played at being able to talk to the dead for years. (Janna is the person who acts like a psychic, Yvonne makes sound effects and voices from an unseen location.) It started as a joke when they were kids and was a fun game, but they found they couldn't stop people from coming to them even if they tried. Yvonne, however, [[ISeeDeadPeople can actually see what might be a ghost]] (or might be... ''something'' else) apparently haunting Janna that nobody else can.
* SanitySlippage: Janna is undergoing one in "My Friend Janna", complete with a [[RoomFullOfCrazy Diary Full of Crazy]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: "Our Neighbor's House". [[spoiler:After both of her sisters have disappeared with the man with the wide brimmed hat and toothy smile, the middle sister flees the house without any food and despite the fact that the snow is much worse than it was several days prior. After an exhausting, dangerous trek, she makes it to the neighbor's house... and finds the man waiting for her there.]]
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:Bell saves herself from the monster by convincing it that its plan to use Bell as a host and move to the city, where there would be many more hosts available, would end terribly for its children.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "A Lady's Hands are Cold", TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler:Bell saves herself from the protagonist, a young woman in an ArrangedMarriage, finds pieces of the murdered first wife concealed all over the house. [[spoiler:Wife #2 reassembles Wife #1, which appears to be what the corpse wants. Unfortunately, now monster by convincing it that she's reassembled, Wife #1's first goal is its plan to kill Wife #2.use Bell as a host and move to the city, where there would be many more hosts available, would end terribly for its children.]]
*OnlySaneMan: The middle sister, Beth, from "Our Neighbor's House". The older sister, Mary, is in denial about their father when he fails to return and refuses to leave their house, only to subsequently fall under TheyWouldCutYouUp:[[spoiler:Bell tells the spell monster that its children would be at danger of the man with the wide hat and the big smile. The poor little sister, Hannah is just a kid who doesn't know what's going on.
* PhonyPsychic: Yvonne and Janna from "My Friend Janna" have played at being able to talk to the dead for years. (Janna is the person who acts like a psychic, Yvonne makes sound effects and voices from an unseen location.) It started as a joke when they were kids and was a fun game, but they found they couldn't stop people from coming to them eventhis (among other things) if they tried. Yvonne, however, [[ISeeDeadPeople can actually see what might be a ghost]] (or might be... ''something'' else) apparently haunting Janna went to live in the city. This leaves the monster so afraid that nobody else can.
* SanitySlippage: Janna is undergoing one in "My Friend Janna", complete with a [[RoomFullOfCrazy Diary Full of Crazy]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: "Our Neighbor's House". [[spoiler:After both of her sisters have disappeared withit changes its mind and decides to stay away from the man with the wide brimmed hat and toothy smile, the middle sister flees the house without any food and despite the fact that the snow city to protect its children]].
* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler:The monster ismuch worse than it was several days prior. After an exhausting, dangerous trek, she makes it to the neighbor's house... and finds the man waiting for her there.a mass of red worms wearing Rebecca's skin.]]
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*TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:Bell saves EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: The final story 'In Conclusion' features a version of Red Riding Hood (implied to be a semi-autobiographical of Carroll herself from as a child.) The girl passes through the monster by convincing it woods without incident to her mother's house, and as she's settling down to sleep she remarks that its plan to use Bell as a host she knew the wolf wouldn't find her.
--> "Oh, but you must travel through those woods again andmove to again..." said a shadow at the city, where there would window. "...and you must be many more hosts available, would end terribly for its children.]]lucky to avoid the wolf every time...\\
But the ''wolf''...the wolf only needs enough luck to find you ''' ''ONCE.'' ''' "
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* PhonyPsychic: Yvonne and Janna from "My Friend Janna" have played at being able to talk to the dead for years. (Janna is the person who acts like a psychic, Yvonne makes sound effects and voices from an unseen location.) It started as a joke when they were kids and was a fun game, but they found they couldn't stop people from coming to them even
* SanitySlippage: Janna is undergoing one in "My Friend Janna", complete with a [[RoomFullOfCrazy Diary Full of Crazy]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: "Our Neighbor's House". [[spoiler:After both of her sisters have disappeared with
* TheWormThatWalks: [[spoiler:The monster is
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:Bell tells the monster that its children would be at danger of this (among other things) if they went to live in the city. This leaves the monster so afraid that it changes its mind and decides to stay away from the city to protect its children]].
* TheWormThatWalks: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:the monster is a mass of red worms wearing Rebecca's skin.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:the monster is a mass of red worms wearing Rebecca's skin.]]
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* TheWormThatWalks: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:the monster is a mass of red worms wearing Rebecca's skin.]]
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* ChekhovsGag: Done for very dark/ironic comedy in "The Nesting Place". When Clarence first picks up Bell, he talks about going swimming in the ponds and creeks in the area. When Bell protests about getting leeches doing that, Clarence jokes about how a leech is just a friend you haven't met yet. [[spoiler:Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a parasite living inside a skin suit pretending to be human]]. And as the last page of the story reveals, [[spoiler:another of these parasites has taken over Clarence's body.]]
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* ChekhovsGag: Done for very dark/ironic comedy in "The Nesting Place". When Clarence first picks up Bell, he talks about going swimming in the ponds and creeks in the area. When Bell protests about getting leeches doing that, Clarence jokes about how a leech is just a friend you haven't met yet. [[spoiler:Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a parasite living inside a skin suit pretending to be human]].human, and came from a pool of water inside a cave]]. And as the last page of the story reveals, [[spoiler:another of these parasites has taken over Clarence's body.]]
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* ChekhovsGag: Done for very dark/ironic comedy. When Clarence first picks up Bell, he talks about going swimming in the ponds and creeks in the area. When Bell protests about getting leeches doing that, Clarence jokes about how a leech is just a friend you haven't met yet. [[spoiler:Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a parasite living inside a skin suit pretending to be human]]. And as the last page of the story reveals, [[spoiler:another of these parasites has taken over Clarence's body.]]
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* ChekhovsGag: Done for very dark/ironic comedy.comedy in "The Nesting Place". When Clarence first picks up Bell, he talks about going swimming in the ponds and creeks in the area. When Bell protests about getting leeches doing that, Clarence jokes about how a leech is just a friend you haven't met yet. [[spoiler:Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a parasite living inside a skin suit pretending to be human]]. And as the last page of the story reveals, [[spoiler:another of these parasites has taken over Clarence's body.]]
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* OnlySaneMan: A gender-inverted example with the middle sister, Beth, from "Our Neighbor's House". The older sister, Mary, is in denial about their father when he fails to return and refuses to leave their house, only to subsequently fall under the spell of the man with the wide hat and the big smile. The poor little sister, Hannah is just a kid who doesn't know what's going on.
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* OnlySaneMan: A gender-inverted example with the The middle sister, Beth, from "Our Neighbor's House". The older sister, Mary, is in denial about their father when he fails to return and refuses to leave their house, only to subsequently fall under the spell of the man with the wide hat and the big smile. The poor little sister, Hannah is just a kid who doesn't know what's going on.
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* TheBluebeard: "A Lady's Hands are Cold" draws on this legend. [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. Wife #1 is not as grateful as one might expect.]]
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* TheBluebeard: "A Lady's Hands are Cold" draws on this legend. [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. [[UngratefulBastard Wife #1 is not as grateful as one might expect.expect]].]]
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* DontGoInTheWoods: In keeping with traditional tales and horror stories, going into the woods is a bad idea. Bell is explicitly warned against the woods near the house of Clarence and Rebecca.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: From what little is shown, the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile who haunts the three sisters from "Our Neighbor's House" is dressed in black, including his hat. [[spoiler:He's also implied to be TheGrimReaper who comes to take the girls into the afterlife after they die during a snowstorm. Both Mary and Hannah say kind words about him, and is seen tenderly hugging Hannah when he takes her. Beth is afraid of the man at first, but she accepts him putting his hat on her head when they meet at the neighbor's house, possibly symbolizing her accepting that she's dead and is now able to reunite with her dead family]].
* DisappearedDad: Justified in "Our Neighbor's House". [[spoiler:The father of the the three girls died from the extreme cold after going out hunting for food in the woods]].
* DontFearTheReaper: In "Our Neighbor's House", [[spoiler:the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile is implied to be TheGrimReaper, but he's a completely non-malicious entity who only seeks to usher in the souls of those who died during an extreme snowstorm, including the three girls. Mary and Hannah are happy when they speak of him and even wait for him when he approaches, and in one panel Hannah is seen hugging the man like old friends. Beth is afraid of him at first. But once they meet at the neighbor's house, Beth comes to accept the man when he kindly plants his hat on her head and lets her enter the house, where she reunites with her dead parents and sisters]].
* DontGoInTheWoods: In keeping with traditional tales and horror stories, going into the woods is a badidea. idea.
** In "Our Neighbor's House", the girls' father leaves for the woods to go hunting, instructing that they leave for their neighbor's house if he doesn't come back in three days. [[spoiler:Sure enough, he doesn't return, having died of the extreme cold]].
** In "The Nesting Place", Bell is explicitly warned against the woods near the house of Clarence andRebecca.Rebecca. [[spoiler:She ignores the warnings and ends up discovering a cave pool where "Rebecca" has become a host for a monster that kills and inhabits people's bodies, and has been looking for other victims for her chilren to inhabit]].
* DisappearedDad: Justified in "Our Neighbor's House". [[spoiler:The father of the the three girls died from the extreme cold after going out hunting for food in the woods]].
* DontFearTheReaper: In "Our Neighbor's House", [[spoiler:the man with the wide-brimmed hat and a toothy smile is implied to be TheGrimReaper, but he's a completely non-malicious entity who only seeks to usher in the souls of those who died during an extreme snowstorm, including the three girls. Mary and Hannah are happy when they speak of him and even wait for him when he approaches, and in one panel Hannah is seen hugging the man like old friends. Beth is afraid of him at first. But once they meet at the neighbor's house, Beth comes to accept the man when he kindly plants his hat on her head and lets her enter the house, where she reunites with her dead parents and sisters]].
* DontGoInTheWoods: In keeping with traditional tales and horror stories, going into the woods is a bad
** In "Our Neighbor's House", the girls' father leaves for the woods to go hunting, instructing that they leave for their neighbor's house if he doesn't come back in three days. [[spoiler:Sure enough, he doesn't return, having died of the extreme cold]].
** In "The Nesting Place", Bell is explicitly warned against the woods near the house of Clarence and
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--> But the ''wolf''...the wolf only needs enough luck to find you ''' ''ONCE.'' ''' "
* FaceStealer: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: the monster kills people and then inhabits their bodies, pretending to be them.]]
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* FaceStealer: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: the monster kills people and then inhabits their bodies, pretending to be them.]]
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But the ''wolf''...the wolf only needs enough luck to find you ''' ''ONCE.'' ''' "
* FaceStealer: In "The Nesting Place",[[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the monster kills people and then [[BodySnatcher inhabits their bodies, bodies]], pretending to be them.them. "She" initially tries taking Bell with this intention, but then Bell exploits the fact that MonsterIsAMommy by telling "Rebecca" of the horrors she and her children will experience once they actually get to the city, frightening the monster so much that "she" leaves Bell alone. But then at the end of the story, Bell discovers Clarence has become a host, too...]]
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But the ''wolf''...the wolf only needs enough luck to find you ''' ''ONCE.'' ''' "
* FaceStealer: In "The Nesting Place",
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* TheGrimReaper: [[spoiler: One of the interpretations of who the man in the wide-brimmed hat is in "Our Neighbor's House". It's likely that the region was hit by such a hard snowstorm that many died of hypothermia, including the three sisters and their father. Death came to collect Mary and Hannah and is waiting at the neighbor's house when Beth arrives, as the neighbor has died too]].
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* TheGrimReaper: [[spoiler: One [[spoiler:One of the interpretations of who the man in the wide-brimmed hat is in "Our Neighbor's House". It's likely that the region was hit by such a hard snowstorm that many died of hypothermia, including the three sisters and their father. Death came to collect Mary and Hannah and is waiting at the neighbor's house when Beth arrives, as the neighbor has died too]].
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* OnlySaneWoman: The middle sister of "Our Neighbor's House". The older sister is in denial about their father when he fails to return and refuses to leave their house, only to subsequently fall under the spell of the man with the wide hat and the big smile. The poor little sister is just a kid an doesn't know what's going on.
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* OnlySaneWoman: The OnlySaneMan: A gender-inverted example with the middle sister of sister, Beth, from "Our Neighbor's House". The older sister sister, Mary, is in denial about their father when he fails to return and refuses to leave their house, only to subsequently fall under the spell of the man with the wide hat and the big smile. The poor little sister sister, Hannah is just a kid an who doesn't know what's going on.
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: Bell tells the monster that its children would be at danger of this if they went to live in the city.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: the monster is a mass of red worms wearing Rebecca's skin.]]
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* TheyWouldCutYouUp: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: Bell [[spoiler:Bell tells the monster that its children would be at danger of this (among other things) if they went to live in the city.city. This leaves the monster so afraid that it changes its mind and decides to stay away from the city to protect its children]].
* TheWormThatWalks: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:the monster is a mass of red worms wearing Rebecca's skin.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: the monster is a mass of red worms wearing Rebecca's skin.]]----
* TheWormThatWalks: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler:the monster is a mass of red worms wearing Rebecca's skin.]]
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* BodyHorror: "The Nesting Place" is full of it. While it's not quite certain if it's literally as bad as the art suggests or if what we see on the page is a way to covey the horror that Bell feels, (as we see it through her eyes) the implication is that reality is at least fairly close to the artwork.
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* BodyHorror: "The Nesting Place" is full of it. While it's not quite certain if it's literally as bad as the art suggests or if what we see on the page is a way to covey convey the horror that Bell feels, feels (as we see it through her eyes) eyes), the implication is that reality is at least fairly close to the artwork.
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* BodyHorror: "The Nesting Place" is full of it. While it's not quite certain if it's literally as bad as the art suggests or if that's the result of the person whose eyes we see it through, it's implied to be pretty close to the artwork.
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* BodyHorror: "The Nesting Place" is full of it. While it's not quite certain if it's literally as bad as the art suggests or if that's what we see on the result of page is a way to covey the person whose eyes horror that Bell feels, (as we see it through, it's implied to be pretty through her eyes) the implication is that reality is at least fairly close to the artwork.
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* ChekhovsGag: When Clarence first picks up Bell, he talks about going swimming in the ponds and creeks in the area. When Bell protests about getting leeches doing that, Clarence jokes about how a leech is just a friend you haven't met yet. [[spoiler:Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a parasite living inside a skin suit pretending to be human]]. And as the last page of the story reveals, [[spoiler:so is Clarence.]]
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* ChekhovsGag: Done for very dark/ironic comedy. When Clarence first picks up Bell, he talks about going swimming in the ponds and creeks in the area. When Bell protests about getting leeches doing that, Clarence jokes about how a leech is just a friend you haven't met yet. [[spoiler:Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a parasite living inside a skin suit pretending to be human]]. And as the last page of the story reveals, [[spoiler:so is Clarence.[[spoiler:another of these parasites has taken over Clarence's body.]]
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* LoveMartyr: The [[spoiler:murdered wife]] of "A Lady's Hands are Cold" was one. She willingly gave everything she had to her lover, who murdered her after marrying her in order to take her wealth for himself. Tragically deconstructed, [[spoiler:because once the second wife finds the pieces of her body hidden throughout the manor and puts the first wife's body back together to try to help her infd piece, the first wife is ''still'' a LoveMartyr to the husband, and tries to kill the second wife so she can have him all over again.]]
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* LoveMartyr: The [[spoiler:murdered wife]] of "A Lady's Hands are Cold" was one. She willingly gave everything she had to her lover, who murdered her after marrying her in order to take her wealth for himself. Tragically deconstructed, [[spoiler:because once the second wife finds the pieces of her body hidden throughout the manor and puts the first wife's body back together to try to help her infd piece, together, the first wife is ''still'' a LoveMartyr to the husband, and tries to kill the second wife so she can have him all over again.]]
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Has nothing to do with the horror game ''VideoGame/ThroughTheWoods''.
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* "In Conclusion": A story very much in the spirit of ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''. A young girl confidently sets off through the woods to see her grandmother. She reaches her grandmother's house without any problems or meeting anyone, but perhaps the wolf was closer than she ever realized.
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* "In Conclusion": A story very much in the spirit of ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''. A young girl confidently sets off through the woods to see her grandmother. mother. She reaches her grandmother's mother's house without any problems or meeting anyone, but perhaps the wolf was closer than she ever realized.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: Strongly implied of the husband in "A Lady's Hands are Cold". [[spoiler:When the body of the husband's first wife is put back together, she claims that the estate was originally hers, and she willingly gave everything to her husband, who regardless went ahead with marrying and then murdering her to have it all for himself it. Only her extremely violent and unreasonable behavior (she thinks the second wife intends to replace and "usurp" her) casts any doubts on the reliability of her story.]]
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: Strongly implied of the husband in "A Lady's Hands are Cold". [[spoiler:When the body of the husband's first wife is put back together, she claims that the estate was originally hers, and she willingly gave everything to her husband, who regardless went ahead with marrying and then murdering her to have it all for himself it.himself. Only her extremely violent and unreasonable behavior (she thinks the second wife intends to replace and "usurp" her) casts any doubts on the reliability of her story.]]
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* "The Nesting Place": Bell, who has been sullen and depressed since her mother's death, goes to stay with her brother and the brother's fiancee Rebecca during a school break. But something seems slightly off about both Rebecca and the woods near the house...
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* "The Nesting Place": Bell, who has been sullen and depressed since her mother's death, goes to stay with her brother Clarence and the brother's his fiancee Rebecca during a school break. But something seems slightly off about both Rebecca and the woods near the house...
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* "In Conclusion": A story very much in the spirit of ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood''. A young girl confidently sets off through the woods to see her grandmother. She reaches her grandmother's house without any problems or meeting anyone, but perhaps the wolf was closer than she ever realized.
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* "Our Neighbor's House"
House": A father goes hunting, but before he leaves he tells his three daughters to go to their neighbor's house if he doesn't return after three days. After three days, strange things begin happening...
* "A Lady's Hands AreCold"
Cold": A woman enters into an arranged marriage with a wealthy man, but his fine manor holds a secret, one which may be very dangerous if discovered.
* "My FriendJanna"
Janna": Two close friends have spent years pretending that they can talk to the spirits of the dead. But one of them actually ''can'' see a ghost.
* "The NestingPlace"
Place": Bell, who has been sullen and depressed since her mother's death, goes to stay with her brother and the brother's fiancee Rebecca during a school break. But something seems slightly off about both Rebecca and the woods near the house...
*"Webcomic/HisFaceAllRed""Webcomic/HisFaceAllRed": When a monster starts killing the village's livestock, a pair of brothers go into the woods to hunt it. Only the younger brother returns... until a week later, when he sees the older brother he murdered walk out of the woods as though nothing had happened.
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* AllTakeAndNoGive: Strongly implied of the husband in "A Lady's Hands are Cold". [[spoiler:When the body of the husband's first wife is put back together, she claims that the estate was originally hers, and she willingly gave everything to her husband, who regardless went ahead with marrying and then murdering her to have it all for himself it. Only her extremely violent and unreasonable behavior (she thinks the second wife intends to replace and "usurp" her) casts any doubts on the reliability of her story.]]
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* TheBluebeard: "A Lady's Hands are Cold" draws on this legend. [[spoiler: After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. Wife #1 is not as grateful as one might expect.]]
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* TheBluebeard: "A Lady's Hands are Cold" draws on this legend. [[spoiler: After [[spoiler:After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. Wife #1 is not as grateful as one might expect.]]]]
* BodyHorror: "The Nesting Place" is full of it. While it's not quite certain if it's literally as bad as the art suggests or if that's the result of the person whose eyes we see it through, it's implied to be pretty close to the artwork.
* BodySnatcher: [[spoiler:The monster of "The Nesting Place" is this... and looking for new hosts for its children as well.]]
* ChekhovsGag: When Clarence first picks up Bell, he talks about going swimming in the ponds and creeks in the area. When Bell protests about getting leeches doing that, Clarence jokes about how a leech is just a friend you haven't met yet. [[spoiler:Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a parasite living inside a skin suit pretending to be human]]. And as the last page of the story reveals, [[spoiler:so is Clarence.]]
* DontGoInTheWoods: In keeping with traditional tales and horror stories, going into the woods is a bad idea. Bell is explicitly warned against the woods near the house of Clarence and Rebecca.
* BodyHorror: "The Nesting Place" is full of it. While it's not quite certain if it's literally as bad as the art suggests or if that's the result of the person whose eyes we see it through, it's implied to be pretty close to the artwork.
* BodySnatcher: [[spoiler:The monster of "The Nesting Place" is this... and looking for new hosts for its children as well.]]
* ChekhovsGag: When Clarence first picks up Bell, he talks about going swimming in the ponds and creeks in the area. When Bell protests about getting leeches doing that, Clarence jokes about how a leech is just a friend you haven't met yet. [[spoiler:Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a parasite living inside a skin suit pretending to be human]]. And as the last page of the story reveals, [[spoiler:so is Clarence.]]
* DontGoInTheWoods: In keeping with traditional tales and horror stories, going into the woods is a bad idea. Bell is explicitly warned against the woods near the house of Clarence and Rebecca.
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* MonsterIsAMommy: In "The Nesting Place", where [[spoiler:"Rebecca" is actually a mass of worms inside Rebecca's stolen skin and wants Bell's skin for her children, so they can leave their spawning pool]]. Bell seizes on this and saves herself by horrifying the monster with stories of the dangers its children would face.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "A Lady's Hands are Cold", the protagonist, a young woman in an ArrangedMarriage, finds pieces of the murdered first wife concealed all over the house. [[spoiler: Wife #2 reassembles Wife #1, which appears to be what the corpse wants. Unfortunately, now that she's reassembled, Wife #1's first goal is to kill Wife #2.]]
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: Bell saves herself from the monster by convincing it that its plan to use Bell as a host would end terribly for its children.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "A Lady's Hands are Cold", the protagonist, a young woman in an ArrangedMarriage, finds pieces of the murdered first wife concealed all over the house. [[spoiler: Wife #2 reassembles Wife #1, which appears to be what the corpse wants. Unfortunately, now that she's reassembled, Wife #1's first goal is to kill Wife #2.]]
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: Bell saves herself from the monster by convincing it that its plan to use Bell as a host would end terribly for its children.]]
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* GhostlyGoals: The girl who has been married to the wealthy man in "A Lady's Hands are Cold" hears a ghostly voice singing every night about giving everything to her love only to be murdered by him, and how she will never know peace until she is whole again. So she would seem to be the benign version, simply looking to have her body reassembled and perhaps buried properly or possibly vengeful against her killer, since her song mentions being unavenged. [[spoiler:When the second wife collects the piece of the first wife's body and puts them together, it turns out the first wife is still violently obsessed with the man she loved, and attacks the second wife for "replacing" her.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Janna and Yvonne of "My Friend Janna". Yvonne says Janna is like a sister to her or more, since she doesn't get along with her own sisters as well as she does with her friend.
* LoveMartyr: The [[spoiler:murdered wife]] of "A Lady's Hands are Cold" was one. She willingly gave everything she had to her lover, who murdered her after marrying her in order to take her wealth for himself. Tragically deconstructed, [[spoiler:because once the second wife finds the pieces of her body hidden throughout the manor and puts the first wife's body back together to try to help her infd piece, the first wife is ''still'' a LoveMartyr to the husband, and tries to kill the second wife so she can have him all over again.]]
* MonsterIsAMommy: In "The Nesting Place", where [[spoiler:"Rebecca" is actually a mass of worms inside Rebecca's stolen skin and wants Bell's skin for her children, so they can leave their spawning pool]]. Bell seizes on this and saves herself by horrifying the monster with stories of the dangers its children wouldface.
face in the city.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: As a girl, Bell's mother would tell her stories of such monsters. [[CassandraTruth Bell never believed them]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "A Lady's Hands are Cold", the protagonist, a young woman in an ArrangedMarriage, finds pieces of the murdered first wife concealed all over the house.[[spoiler: Wife [[spoiler:Wife #2 reassembles Wife #1, which appears to be what the corpse wants. Unfortunately, now that she's reassembled, Wife #1's first goal is to kill Wife #2.]]
* OnlySaneWoman: The middle sister of "Our Neighbor's House". The older sister is in denial about their father when he fails to return and refuses to leave their house, only to subsequently fall under the spell of the man with the wide hat and the big smile. The poor little sister is just a kid an doesn't know what's going on.
* PhonyPsychic: Yvonne and Janna from "My Friend Janna" have played at being able to talk to the dead for years. (Janna is the person who acts like a psychic, Yvonne makes sound effects and voices from an unseen location.) It started as a joke when they were kids and was a fun game, but they found they couldn't stop people from coming to them even if they tried. Yvonne, however, [[ISeeDeadPeople can actually see what might be a ghost]] (or might be... ''something'' else) apparently haunting Janna that nobody else can.
* SanitySlippage: Janna is undergoing one in "My Friend Janna", complete with a [[RoomFullOfCrazy Diary Full of Crazy]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: "Our Neighbor's House". [[spoiler:After both of her sisters have disappeared with the man with the wide brimmed hat and toothy smile, the middle sister flees the house without any food and despite the fact that the snow is much worse than it was several days prior. After an exhausting, dangerous trek, she makes it to the neighbor's house... and finds the man waiting for her there.]]
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In "The Nesting Place",[[spoiler: Bell [[spoiler:Bell saves herself from the monster by convincing it that its plan to use Bell as a host and move to the city, where there would be many more hosts available, would end terribly for its children.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Janna and Yvonne of "My Friend Janna". Yvonne says Janna is like a sister to her or more, since she doesn't get along with her own sisters as well as she does with her friend.
* LoveMartyr: The [[spoiler:murdered wife]] of "A Lady's Hands are Cold" was one. She willingly gave everything she had to her lover, who murdered her after marrying her in order to take her wealth for himself. Tragically deconstructed, [[spoiler:because once the second wife finds the pieces of her body hidden throughout the manor and puts the first wife's body back together to try to help her infd piece, the first wife is ''still'' a LoveMartyr to the husband, and tries to kill the second wife so she can have him all over again.]]
* MonsterIsAMommy: In "The Nesting Place", where [[spoiler:"Rebecca" is actually a mass of worms inside Rebecca's stolen skin and wants Bell's skin for her children, so they can leave their spawning pool]]. Bell seizes on this and saves herself by horrifying the monster with stories of the dangers its children would
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: As a girl, Bell's mother would tell her stories of such monsters. [[CassandraTruth Bell never believed them]].
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "A Lady's Hands are Cold", the protagonist, a young woman in an ArrangedMarriage, finds pieces of the murdered first wife concealed all over the house.
* OnlySaneWoman: The middle sister of "Our Neighbor's House". The older sister is in denial about their father when he fails to return and refuses to leave their house, only to subsequently fall under the spell of the man with the wide hat and the big smile. The poor little sister is just a kid an doesn't know what's going on.
* PhonyPsychic: Yvonne and Janna from "My Friend Janna" have played at being able to talk to the dead for years. (Janna is the person who acts like a psychic, Yvonne makes sound effects and voices from an unseen location.) It started as a joke when they were kids and was a fun game, but they found they couldn't stop people from coming to them even if they tried. Yvonne, however, [[ISeeDeadPeople can actually see what might be a ghost]] (or might be... ''something'' else) apparently haunting Janna that nobody else can.
* SanitySlippage: Janna is undergoing one in "My Friend Janna", complete with a [[RoomFullOfCrazy Diary Full of Crazy]].
* ShootTheShaggyDog: "Our Neighbor's House". [[spoiler:After both of her sisters have disappeared with the man with the wide brimmed hat and toothy smile, the middle sister flees the house without any food and despite the fact that the snow is much worse than it was several days prior. After an exhausting, dangerous trek, she makes it to the neighbor's house... and finds the man waiting for her there.]]
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In "The Nesting Place",
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* ThatsNoMoon: As the girl in "In Conclusion" settles down to sleep with the moon watching over her, she muses that she knew the wolf wouldn't find her. The following page reveals the "moon" to be one of the wolf's eyes.
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''Through the Woods'' is a collection of horror comics by Emily Carroll.
The stories include:
* "Our Neighbor's House"
* "A Lady's Hands Are Cold"
* "My Friend Janna"
* "The Nesting Place"
* "Webcomic/HisFaceAllRed"
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* ArrangedMarriage: The main character of "A Lady's Hands Are Cold" enters one.
* TheBluebeard: "A Lady's Hands are Cold" draws on this legend. [[spoiler: After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. Wife #1 is not as grateful as one might expect.]]
* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: The final story 'In Conclusion' features a version of Red Riding Hood (implied to be a semi-autobiographical of Carroll herself as a child.) The girl passes through the woods without incident to her mother's house, and as she's settling down to sleep she remarks that she knew the wolf wouldn't find her.
--> "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 the ''wolf''...the wolf only needs enough luck to find you ''' ''ONCE.'' ''' "
* FaceStealer: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: the monster kills people and then inhabits their bodies, pretending to be them.]]
* MonsterIsAMommy: In "The Nesting Place", where [[spoiler:"Rebecca" is actually a mass of worms inside Rebecca's stolen skin and wants Bell's skin for her children, so they can leave their spawning pool]]. Bell seizes on this and saves herself by horrifying the monster with stories of the dangers its children would face.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "A Lady's Hands are Cold", the protagonist, a young woman in an ArrangedMarriage, finds pieces of the murdered first wife concealed all over the house. [[spoiler: Wife #2 reassembles Wife #1, which appears to be what the corpse wants. Unfortunately, now that she's reassembled, Wife #1's first goal is to kill Wife #2.]]
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: Bell saves herself from the monster by convincing it that its plan to use Bell as a host would end terribly for its children.]]
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: Bell tells the monster that its children would be at danger of this if they went to the city.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: the monster is a mass of red worms wearing Rebecca's skin.]]
The stories include:
* "Our Neighbor's House"
* "A Lady's Hands Are Cold"
* "My Friend Janna"
* "The Nesting Place"
* "Webcomic/HisFaceAllRed"
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!!Tropes:
* ArrangedMarriage: The main character of "A Lady's Hands Are Cold" enters one.
* TheBluebeard: "A Lady's Hands are Cold" draws on this legend. [[spoiler: After an ArrangedMarriage, Wife #2 finds pieces of Wife #1 hidden all over the house, then reassembles her. Wife #1 is not as grateful as one might expect.]]
* EvilOnlyHasToWinOnce: The final story 'In Conclusion' features a version of Red Riding Hood (implied to be a semi-autobiographical of Carroll herself as a child.) The girl passes through the woods without incident to her mother's house, and as she's settling down to sleep she remarks that she knew the wolf wouldn't find her.
--> "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 the ''wolf''...the wolf only needs enough luck to find you ''' ''ONCE.'' ''' "
* FaceStealer: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: the monster kills people and then inhabits their bodies, pretending to be them.]]
* MonsterIsAMommy: In "The Nesting Place", where [[spoiler:"Rebecca" is actually a mass of worms inside Rebecca's stolen skin and wants Bell's skin for her children, so they can leave their spawning pool]]. Bell seizes on this and saves herself by horrifying the monster with stories of the dangers its children would face.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "A Lady's Hands are Cold", the protagonist, a young woman in an ArrangedMarriage, finds pieces of the murdered first wife concealed all over the house. [[spoiler: Wife #2 reassembles Wife #1, which appears to be what the corpse wants. Unfortunately, now that she's reassembled, Wife #1's first goal is to kill Wife #2.]]
* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: Bell saves herself from the monster by convincing it that its plan to use Bell as a host would end terribly for its children.]]
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: Bell tells the monster that its children would be at danger of this if they went to the city.]]
* TheWormThatWalks: In "The Nesting Place", [[spoiler: the monster is a mass of red worms wearing Rebecca's skin.]]
