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oh, this is literally The Monkey's Paw. Also, the girl didn't wish for her father to come back? She wished for her mother to be happy, and clearly her mother isn't happy because a zombie showed up.

okay, so the soldier storyline is closely tied to the book The Things They Carried (I know it's much more explicitly tied to Heart of Darkness, hush). I don't mind it. Minimal art, lots of blank backgrounds, very little to no horrific imagery... this is a good story, but it's a supernatural...

I found it not so great to be honest. Circuses are known sources of creppy imagery (tm) for Junji Ito stories (just look at Gyo), and I have to say that this isn't a particularly scary, funny, or even charming take. The ringleader is a demon, people who join the circus die, and all the boys want...

The sea is traditionally the birthplace of such benthic horrors as the Deep Ones, or WWII-era biological weapons, etc. The seaside village is a traditional locale in horror stories, almost as traditional as the heart of metropolitan decay or an apartment complex. This, then, is a very...

😎VIRGIN pro-choice activists can't HANDLE CHAD pro-life MANGAKA* DRAWING babies and calling them FETUSES unlike ME who SUPPORTS FORCED BIRTH which is not HORRIFIC** at all in ANY WAY 😎😎😎😎😎😎😎 *mangaka means manga artist **horrific means "horror" "iffic"

So what, this woman was surrounded by sinful people who would either ruin her or die first? Seems to me like she was doomed from the start. Also, what kind of terrible logic does this promote? "Oh, it's probably a good thing that the husband and friends of that woman died, because they probably...

??? I feel like at a certain point it stops being execution and starts being, by any metric, torture.

Easily the most haunting chapter. I get that these are short ministories, so each one is only like 5 pages and has to include a shock panel somewhere, but this one definitely feels more tension-building than the others.

I mean yeah the stone is clearly evil; getting rid of it isn't the worst idea considering how much effort the dark forces appear to put into preserving it (killing the people who would remove it, for instance). Also, the artist is seriously doing the handsome=good, "ugly"=evil thing.

The first traditional ghost story in the series. Live without sin, kids, or you'll die a horrible death.

oh no, she's ugly!!!!!

Sets up the God of Hair, at least, though one does wonder where it's all going.

That's the second storyline so far that has to do with long-haired girls being "punished". I get the feeling that this author has a specific gripe with the world.

geez, they do funerals right quick over in ol' Nihon

A perfect demonstration of how important art is to a horror manga. The snarl on the ghost woman's face is just silly, and the reaction panel from the lady shows an expression that's more offended than anything else. Besides that, the moral is pretty childish (don't waste rice! a farmer performed...

Hey, ghost stories can be sad and somber. Horrific imagery, to be sure, though it's not quite detailed and jarring, more just abstract "this is gore" or "these are monsters". I don't mind it.

The art is a bit amateurish, but I'll be honest: the panel where the girls turn around and say that they're going to tell "your story" gets me. The ending is a bit confusing (so were the girls ghosts? If so, why do they run off at the end? Why does the girl still think it's a dream after...

The art may be bad, making fun of those who eat "gross food" kinda veers close to imposing arbitrary cultural standards on people, and the ending may be unusually light for a mangaka who's no stranger to dark finishes, but despite that there is a sort of charm. A self-harming blood fetishists...

Honestly not sure what this is doing in a horror compilation. Ito does make funnier stuff (see his cat manga), but so far even the funny stories in this series has had a degree of horror. This is definitely breaking with that mold.

"If statues were possessed, they would clearly try to smooch each other"