"Gentle Goodbye": A sad mourning tradition haunts a new wife."Blackbird": A man lost in the mountains gets life-saving help which soon becomes his bane."Wooden Spirit": A family is disrupted when a boarder moves in and finds love."Dissection-chan": A woman begs to be cut apart on an operating table."Futon" and "Tomio: Red Turtleneck": A man and his girlfriend are tormented by curses cast by a vengeful mistress.Numerous fears inhabit the stories in the collection, which are as follows:
Original Japanese edition published by Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.Even a fragment is frightening.Marking a return to horror manga for the first time in eight years, Fragments of Horror is Junji Ito's fourth anthology of assorted short stories, closely following in the footsteps of the Voices in the Dark serials. 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.
The eight “fragments” here are definitely inspired in part by morality tales of long ago: greed and betrayal lead to all sorts of horrific consequences. With Halloween just over a week away, you couldn’t go wrong with scaring yourself (and/or your loved ones!) with this standalone collection of creepy, macabre tales from Junji Ito, one of Japan’s best known horror manga artists (with good reason, egads!). I kept looking around to make sure what was on the page hadn’t somehow escaped and was about to pounce on me. So it wasn’t even dusk yet and already the spine was tingling as soon as I opened the book.
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