The Countess is never named I got a feel of Bathory, though there is no blood bathing, as much as Carmilla, perhaps even evoking the spirit of Countess Dollingen of Gratz. This was recommended to me by Leila, who described it as Alice in Wonderland meets Carmilla if imagined by Angela Carter – and that works for me but I wouldn’t want to limit it with that description.
Illustrated, with mostly sparse prose (though it builds purposefully in a couple of areas), with a reliance on the imagery for narrative exposition, this is probably best described as a graphic novel, rather than an illustrated text, and the outstanding illustrations use black, white, grey and red to build an atmospheric, occasionally erotically Gothic and also gory landscape. The review: I struggle to think how I will explain this exceptional volume. Emily Carroll has fashioned a rich gothic horror charged with eroticism that doesn’t just make your skin crawl, it crawls into it. The Blurb: Like many before her that have never come back, she’s made it to the Countess’ castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets what unfurls under its fluttering flags.
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