EMILY CARROLL’S body of work has enthralled all kinds of readers: horror fans, comic artists, and adolescents with a penchant for the creepy. She made her name with the 2010 horror webcomic His Face All Red and with her illustrations in two graphic novels aimed at younger readers: Marika McCoola’s Baba Yaga’s Assistant (Candlewick Press) and the adaptation of Laurie Halse Anderson’s Speak (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
Carroll, who lives in Stratford, Ontario, won an Eisner Award in 2015 for her debut graphic novel, Through the Woods (Simon & Schuster), which saw the artist delving deeper into psychological horror. With her new graphic novel, When I Arrived at the Castle – her irst with Toronto’sKoyama Press – Carroll steps into sexier terrain with a unique take on the gothic vampire tale.