Get ready for a bizarre journey through a town plagued by spirals. They're everywhere and they're making the townspeople go mad in some shockingly grotesque ways. Absolute nightmare fuel, Uzumaki will have you on the edge of your seat, thinking "is Junji Ito okay?"
— Kasey
Junji Ito at his best — this is his masterpiece and rightfully so with the way he has us all fall prey to the mesmerizing influence of the spiral and all its dreadful horror. It’s an obsession that quickly escalates in how strange and eerie it all is. A haunting of a town and its inhabitants and the way they are cursed, contaminated, infested, and possessed by the spiral.
— pedro
Description
A masterpiece of horror manga, now available in a deluxe hardcover edition!
Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but a pattern: UZUMAKI, the spiral—the hypnotic secret shape of the world. The bizarre masterpiece horror manga is now available all in a single volume. Fall into a whirlpool of terror!
About the Author
Junji Ito made his professional manga debut in 1987 and since then has gone on to be recognized as one of the greatest contemporary artists working in the horror genre. His titles include Tomie and Uzumaki, which have been adapted into live-action films; Gyo, which was adapted into an animated film; and his short story collections Fragments of Horror, Shiver and Frankenstein, all of which are available from VIZ Media. Ito’s influences include classic horror manga artists Kazuo Umezu and Hideshi Hino, as well as authors Yasutaka Tsutsui and H.P. Lovecraft.
