The one about the store uses the semicolon correctly.
That the characters age is sixteen at one point
The words such as blood-bedewed and corpse-like in the phrases given above give off a sinister tone. The words blood and corpse relate to death, a dark atmosphere, or hints that something threatening or harmful is about to happen or has happened. The word "sinister" best describes the tone used in these phrases.
B. The punctuation belongs outside of the parenthetical citation.
