A best-of story selection by the master of horror manga. This volume includes nine of Junji Ito’s best short stories, as selected by the author himself and presented with accompanying notes and commentary. An arm peppered with tiny holes dangles from a sick girl’s window… After an idol hangs herself, balloons bearing faces appear in the sky, some even featuring your own face… An amateur film crew hires an extremely individualistic fashion model and faces a real bloody ending… An offering of nine fresh nightmares for the delight of horror fans. 1\. Used Record or Second-Hand Record (from House of the Marionettes, あやつりの屋敷 Ayatsuri no Yashiki), a story about people fighting over the ownership of a record that has a singer's singing as they died recorded on it. 2\. Shiver (from Slug Girl, なめくじの少女 Namekuji no Shoujo), a story about a cursed jade stone that causes holes to open up all over a person's body if they're around it. 3\. Fashion Model (from Souichi's Diary of Curses, 双一の呪い日記, Sōichi no Noroi no Nikki), a story about an oddly ominous fashion model. 4\. Hanging Balloons (from The Face Burglar, 顔泥棒 Kao Dorobou), a story about balloon headed dopplegangers out to hunt their counterparts the moment they go outside. 5\. 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. 6\. Painter (from Tomie), a story about a strange but beautiful woman named Tomie who wishes for an artist to accurately capture her beauty, and all the misfortune that happens as a result... 7\. The Long Dream (from The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel,トンネル奇譚 Ton'neru kitan), a story about a man who claims that the length of his dreams are becoming longer and longer and about how he begins to change as his dreams extend farther and farther. 8\. Honored Ancestors (from The Face Burglar, 顔泥棒 Kao Dorobou), a story about an amnesiac girl and the encounter that caused her to lose her memories and about carrying on the family line. At all costs. 9\. Greased (from Voices in the Dark, 闇の声 Yami no Koe, a story about oil and grease. 10\. Fashion Model: Cursed Frame \[new\]

AN EVER-INCREASING MALICE. A MIND-NUMBING TERROR. SEE THE SEEDS OF HORROR SOWN IN THIS COLLECTION OF JUNJI ITO’S EARLIEST WORKS. A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they aren’t twins. And a boy’s nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world… This hauntingly strange story collection showcases a dozen of Junji Ito’s earliest works from when he burst onto the horror scene, sowing fresh seeds of terror.

Racconti terrificanti e sorprendenti che soddisferanno gli appassionati di qualsiasi tipo di orrore: dal body-horror al terrore cosmico, da antiche maledizioni a maniaci omicidi inarrestabili... storia dopo storia Ito si conferma un maestro che alla quantità di pagine prodotte unisce una qualità fuori scala!

Continua la selezione dei migliori racconti di Junji Ito, presentati per la prima volta commentati dall'autore in persona. Il maestro dell'horror nipponico racconta le sue trame, i suoi incubi e le sue esperienze più cruente. L'oscuro universo di un mondo tormentato dalla paura e dall'ignoto...

Tomie è una donna capace di sedurre e corrompere la mente degli uomini, trascinandoli in una spirale di follia. Tomie non teme la morte poiché nulla può ucciderla. Tomie torna alla vita per vendicarsi, per sempre, senza pietà.

Souichi's Diary of Curses is volume six in the Horror World of Junji Ito series. It was originally published in Japan in 1997. None of these stories have been officially published in English. But some have been translated by fans. The stories in this collection focus on Tsujii Souichi, a young boy who is obsessed with curses and the occult, much to the annoyance of his typical Japanese family. Souichi tends to not only make trouble for other people with his strange and mischevious behavior, but he also gets himself into hot water as well. \[CHAPTERS\] 01\. Souichi’s Selfish Curse 02\. The Silent Room 03\. The Coffin 04\. Rumours 05\. Fashion Model

Accorrete, il circo è in città! E, da perfetto maestro di cerimonie, Junji Ito ha preparato una serie di numeri, uno più straordinario e terrificante dell'altro. Tra spaventapassari fin troppo umani, città-labirinto e cimiteri galleggianti, lo specialista del manga horror compone una nuova antologia con il suo inimitabile gusto per l'orrore senza limiti e per il grottesco. Si alzi il sipario!