The stories range from a classic haunted house tale, to a high school biology class gone horribly wrong, to erotic/horrific metamorphoses and plenty more creepiness from the creator of the classics Uzumaki and Gyo. Fragments Of Horror (Hardcover) Author: Junji Ito Published by: Viz Media Llc Product Description. All but the first tale - a brief eight-pager - run thirty pages or more. As for the material this cover so cleverly and appropriately contains: the eight pieces here have all been penned since 2006.
#FRAGMENTS OF HORROR SERIES#
When you stare at the cover head on, it appears as it does online, but as you lift it up and the light glances it at various angles, a series of ghostly images dance across the cover that fleetingly depict horrific hallucinations - doubtless those that the cover's central figure - a clear homage to Munch's " The Scream" - is helplessly experiencing. The dust jacket incorporates the single best use of spot varnish that we've ever come across. Fragments of Horror (, Ma no Kakera) is a Japanese horror anthology manga series written and illustrated by Junji Ito.It was serialized in Nemuki between April 2013 and February 2014 as seven separate short stories, with an eighth being added for the tankbon release.
A funeral where the dead are definitely not laid to rest.9. A dissection class with a most unusual subject.
Original Japanese edition published by Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.The web image doesnt do justice to the cover of this collection of Ito's ghoulish and shocking short horror manga, his first in eight years. An old wooden mansion that turns on its inhabitants. Published: 2014 (Japan), 2015 (United States) The panels are absolutely of the ‘once seen, can’t be unseen’-variety: closing your eyes to these visions isn’t going to be enough, especially since lurid eyeballs abound throughout! No doubt you’re being watched!Īnd now you’ve been duly warned. Lurid violence is never far from most of the stories here: an attractive architecture student moves into a heritage site and insinuates herself into the hearts of the father and daughter who live there in “Wooden Spirit” and causes gruesome ends a girl grows into a desperate woman determined to flay innards, including her own (!), in “Dissection-chan” a lone hiker with debilitating injuries stays alive for a month by being fed mysterious flesh in “Blackbird” a writer collects fans in her dungeon in “Magami Nanakuse” and a caretaker grooms her charge for the ultimate (justifiably) vengeful act in “Whispering Woman.” The single gore-less story is not without its many ghosts, in which the dead have decades to leave the living in “Gentle Goodbye.”Īs frightful as these stories are, even more grisly are the images – this is a graphic title, after all.
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