Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories

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Born in 1963 in Gifu prefecture, Junji Ito is Japan’s most successful and lauded horror writer. What makes Ito unique in the horror world is that he isn’t a novelist or a short story writer in the traditional sense; he’s a mangaka. His horror stories, both short and long, are all written and drawn with a surreal, off-kilter, otherworldly eeriness. Marionette Mansion (from House of the Marionettes, あやつりの屋敷 Ayatsuri no Yashiki), a story about a family who rather than deciding what they do or how they live, they instead hire puppeteers to control their actions via strings from the attic of their home. Reprints The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection Volumes 9 and 16 (Junji Ito's Hallucinations and Frankenstein, respectively) a b Ember, Diana-Nathalie, and Georgiana Lavinia Tar. “Junji Ito's Contemporary Visual Adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. A Comparative Study.” Lingua. Language and Culture, no. 2, 2021, pp. 247–259. Iwane, Akiko (October 1998). "The Junji Ito Interview: A conversation with the creator of Uzumaki". Davinch. Archived from the original on March 6, 2019 . Retrieved February 20, 2019.

I’ll admit it. I intentionally slowed my progress through this book. After each story, I would put it down and read something else for a while. I wanted time to let Ito’s imagery linger, and not just rush headlong into the next story. Tsuruta, Norio (September 13, 2001), Kakashi (Fantasy, Horror), Emperor Multimedia Group (EMG), Planet, Mi-PiC, archived from the original on September 21, 2022 , retrieved September 20, 2022 Each story has something different to offer. “The Long Dream” is quite haunting, “Used Record” is chilling and gruesome, and “Honored Ancestors” takes an unusual twist. The artwork is superb — detailed and moody, using such fine ink lines to create such disturbing imagery. Nakahara, Shun (June 29, 2002), Tomie: Saishuu-shô - kindan no kajitsu (Horror), archived from the original on October 6, 2022 , retrieved October 6, 2022 Canciones en la oscuridad: comienza con la protagonista caminando por la calle y encontrándose con una cantante callejera. Poco después se dará cuenta de que se ha metido la canción en su cabeza y no puede dejar de escucharla. Comienza a buscarla sin éxito, pero un día escucha la canción en la radio, la cantante ha saltado a la fama y ahora hay fans por todo el país con la canción metida en la cabeza. Desesperada llegará a una clínica para encontrar una solución y allí averiguará ... Mejor léanlo es la mejor parte del cómic.Ito's work has developed a substantial cult following, [1] [2] and Ito has been called an iconic horror manga artist. [1] [3] [4] [5] His manga has been adapted to both film and anime television series, including the Tomie film series and both the Junji Ito Collection and Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre anime anthology series. The first story, “Used Record,” is about a mysterious vinyl record that leads to obsession and murder when people listen to it. A cursed record that dooms its listeners. A mysterious jade carving that bestows a horrific disease on those who possess it. A monstrous fashion model. Ghostly blimps of the dead. A crazed puppeteer who turns his family into marionettes. A muse that drives painters mad. A man whose dreams distort time and, eventually, his body. A man determined to carry on his family’s lineage, no matter what. And a nightmarishly greasy house and the poor family the grease envelopes. In the present day, Yuuji meets up with his friend Hideo. Hideo's mother is a midwife at the local hospital, who delivered Rina at birth. Rina was born not breathing and the doctors could not explain how she was alive; but then the holes began to open in her skin and she was somehow able to breathe through them. However, Hideo claims his mother might be making this story up, and Yuuji doesn't know what to believe. Smith, David (February 11, 2023). "Junji Ito Maniac: Disturbing, Unsettling, And A Little Bit Normal". Kotaku Australia. Archived from the original on March 30, 2023 . Retrieved March 30, 2023.

Mimi's Tales of Terror (a.k.a. Mimi's Ghost Stories) (ミミの怪談) (collection of six one-shots, adapted from Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama's Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro (怪談新耳袋))Natalie (in Japanese). July 27, 2010. Archived from the original on August 2, 2022 . Retrieved October 6, 2021. A connection between Lovecraft's work and the spirals of Uzumaki has been placed before, as well as a common theme of cosmic horror. [21]

Death Row Doorbell: A happy family of five is torn apart when they're assaulted by a gang of rogue bikers during a summer vacation, leaving the father and youngest child dead, and leaving the brother and sister who survived in care of their mother who is now suffering from severe brain damage from the beatings she endured. Every day, the spirit of the gang leader appears at their front door, begging for forgiveness while his body wastes away in prison waiting for his death sentence to be carried out. The brother and sister refuse to forgive him, growing further tormented by the spirit of the man who destroyed their lives until one of them finally snaps. The theme of the story is about how holding grudges and being unable to forgive those who have wronged us ends up hurting the victims much more than it hurts the assailants. Vengeance, hatred and grudges are all horribly self-destructive things. Collects: Blood-Slurping Darkness, The Ghost of Golden Time, Roar of Ages, Secret of the Haunted Mansion, Glyceride (a.k.a. Greased), The Earthbound, and Dead Man Calling a b c "The Horror of an Uncertain Future: An Interview with Revered Manga-ka Junji Ito". B&N Reads. June 17, 2019. Archived from the original on June 2, 2022 . Retrieved June 2, 2022. In 2006, Ito married Ayako Ishiguro (石黒亜矢子), a picture book artist. As of 2023, they have two children. [18] Inspiration and themes [ edit ] Other artists [ edit ]

Collects: Tomie, Tomie Part 2: Morita Hospital, Basement, Photo, Kiss, Mansion, Revenge, Waterfall Basin, and Painter Includes six bonus stories: Gravetown, Gang House, Slug Girl, The Adjacent Window, The Thing That Drifted Ashore, and Honored Ancestors