Cartoonist Emily Carroll, who has entertained (and unnerved) with such haunting webcomics as "His Face All Red," "Margot's Room" and "Out of Skin," is back with another chilling tale called "The Hole the Fox Did Make." I won't say anything to spoil the story, except to say that it includes those dark fairy-tale elements you probably already love about her work.

It's been a particularly good year professionally for Carroll, who won both the Cartoonist Studio Prize and a Doug Wright Award. The first print collection of her work, Through the Woods, will be released next month by McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster.