Short Review: GHOSTS

It’s another Evil Queen story, only this time wholly focused on Regina. The art and tone, not to mention the title, evoke a haunted atmosphere that intensifies when, while traveling through the Forest of the Dead, Regina is injured in her crashed carriage and sees what she takes to be the ghost of her dead first love, Daniel. But the story doesn’t cross into the supernatural—just amazing coincidence.

The apparition is in fact a man, but not Daniel. It’s his brother William (not previously introduced in the show), and he lures Regina into a trap so as to avenge his brother’s death. As informed readers will know, Regina’s mother Cora murdered Daniel, so his death was not her fault; rather it sparked her own quest of vengeance on Snow White. To find out that a living relation of Daniel’s blames her for his demise is a surprising turn for her and the reader.