Lovesickness: Junji Ito Story Collection

by Junji Ito, Junji Ito (Illustrator)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

The kind of horror that lingers long after you're done — as is pretty much any Junji Ito — this collection includes a handsome and oddly deadly stranger, ghosts, body horror and that dose of hope to lessen the weight of the darkness.

Ryusuke returns to the town he once lived in because rumors are swirling about girls killing themselves after encountering a bewitchingly handsome young man. Harboring his own secret from time spent in this town, Ryusuke attempts to capture the beautiful boy and close the case, but…

Starting with the strikingly bloody “Lovesickness,” this volume collects ten stories showcasing horror master Junji Ito in peak form, including “The Strange Hikizuri Siblings” and “The Rib Woman.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781974726837
Publisher:	VIZ Media LLC
Publication date:	04/20/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	408
Sales rank:	467,362
File size:	261 MB
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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.

Editorial Reviews

★ 04/01/2021

Ito (Remina) again proves himself a master of modern horror in this collection of 10 stories. Five of the stories depict a town's descent into chaos after the suicide of a woman who practices an ancient custom of waiting at a crossroads to ask her fortune from the first person to pass by. It's revealed that the woman was compelled to take her life by an ethereal black-clad boy who bears a striking resemblance to a teenager named Ryusuke. The boy becomes the object of unwanted attention that quickly escalates to frenzy and builds to a gruesome climax. Ito reveals a talent for macabre humor in a pair of tales starring six ghoulish orphans who only pause their torment of one another to attack unsuspecting outsiders. Of the remaining stories, "The Rib Woman" proves the most memorable, blending body horror and supernatural mystery when a teenager considering cosmetic surgery, to change the shape of her torso, is plagued by strange music that only she can hear. VERDICT Ito's boundless imagination and his skill for evoking dread and visceral terror are on full display in this collection, which is sure to be embraced by his wildly devoted and rapidly growing fanbase.

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