Inside the walls and floor of the house, she found the decaying body parts of a woman and eventually the head which sang an awful lament. This story is centered around two friends, one is having an emotional/mental breakdown, no longer enjoys previous activities, is all but actively pushing old friends away, and those friends gradually start losing interest in reconnecting.

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. Ripping Off the String of Pearls: 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. The husband's actions eventually bite him hard when his second wife reassembles the first wife's dismembered corpse, and he comes back from a hunting trip in the woods to find his first wife waiting for him in the mansion. The father of the the three girls died from the extreme cold after going out hunting for food in the woods.Of the three sisters, she doesn't really understand everything that's going on, including the importance of surviving a heavy snowstorm and the ramifications of their father's death. A full-time book nerd who works in publishing for her day job, Thea currently resides in Astoria, Queens with her partner and rambunctious cat. Our Neighbor's House" spends a lot of time and focus on the mysterious man with the wide brimmed hat, but the real danger to the children was lack of food supplies, the cold, and the snow storms that cut them off from possible safety/rescue. Actually seeing just how dangerous the woods can be, however, seems to deeply traumatize and terrify her. Clarence's fiancee Rebecca, whom he wants Bell to be friends with, is actually a mass of leech-like parasites living inside a skin suit pretending to be human, and came from a pool of water inside a cave.

The ending implies that he's actually The Grim Reaper (though a pretty nice one) who has come to usher the girls into the afterlife after they all die during a harsh snowstorm.Carroll illustrated the 2015 graphic novel Baba Yaga's Assistant from Candlewick Press and a graphic novel adaptation of Speak. She's depicted as the most reasonable of her sisters, looking out for their well-being and trying to convince them it is better to go to the neighbor's house where they have better chances of surviving the snowstorm. Punctuated by Carroll’s boldly illustrated panels – dominant bloody reds and inky blacks – Through the Woods is beautiful, edgy, and horrific in all of the right ways.