This book has some really haunting and unnerving imagery that’ll stick with you - excellent stuff for a horror comic to have. The character design of Fuchi in Fashion Model is also genuinely disturbing. Like the holes in people’s bodies in Shiver, the bizarre ways Mukoda morphs in The Long Dream, the heads upon heads in Honored Family, and the gross-out scene in Greased Oil where the brother squeezes the zits on his face, pouring oil onto his tormented sister’s face. Ito’s art is first rate and nowhere else is the body horror aspect to his stories more effective than the ones in this collection. Ito’s stories are nothing if not original, though often they’re too absurd or silly, undercutting the horror with unintentionally amusing over-the-top moments. Some of his stories are a bit weak, containing only a striking image or idea and a lot of fluff around it, but some are quite brilliant and unique. Shiver is one of Junji Ito’s better horror manga collections. And a nightmarishly greasy house and the poor family the grease envelopes. A man determined to carry on his family’s lineage, no matter what. A man whose dreams distort time and, eventually, his body. A crazed puppeteer who turns his family into marionettes. A mysterious jade carving that bestows a horrific disease on those who possess it.
A cursed record that dooms its listeners.
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