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Add another one to the list of "the protagonist is actually the monster" horror stories, a list that starts as far back as Frankenstein. Both patients are ultimately unfortunate victims, and despite their terrifying appearance, the real horror lies with the doctor, who administers the crystals...

Extremely creepy (head centipedes... ugh). A fantastic commentary on Japanese culture and the horrific implications of being beholden to one's family, the imperative to have children and continuing the family line overriding any personal desires. One of the more explicit cultural critiques of...

Lines like "Operation Inchworm" and "I find it very odd!" as well as the nice grandma nightmare definitely place this among the vanishingly rare cohort of "funny Ito stories". Not quite as nonsensical as, say, Memories of Real Shit or his cat manga, but it's up there. It's ultimately still a...

Date-based fears always age poorly; see all the people worried about 2012. I'm not too keen on the gendered aspect of the sickness, seems basically unmotivated. There's also no clear reason for why Ayako remains free, why the illness develops the body into a shape strictly conforming with a...

Classic ghost story, the twin to the vengeful ghost. Not Junji Ito's best work. Honestly, I expected the death of the other girl to become plot-relevant at some point, but a bare mention at the end is really weak.

A nice, short comic that's entirely buildup to the final panel. An extremely aesthetics-driven work, there is basically no story. "Girl turns into doll" is already a staple in horror (unless you're into that kind of TF I guess), so taking it to the next level by leveraging Ito's incredible...

An entire volume centered around alternate dimensions with persistent body horror elements. So much body horror I'm kinda unnerved (E X T R E M E L Y L O N G L I M B S). Not a bad concept by any means, and executed pretty well. The alternate dimension business really starts coming in later on...

Oh, I think this might be part of the inspiration for the Dream Devourer from World of Horror (the video game). In any case, this is a great story. The monster is built up very effectively, and I appreciate how the obvious elements (the four girls are connected, they are of the same) and the...

I quite like this story, it's short and sweet. A bit of a darker take on Monty Python's "The Funniest Joke In The World". It's not quite as effective either, considering that you have to expose the victim to a quarter hour of Facts N' Logic(tm) and then they have to search for a place to die...

I LOVE the idea of this incredibly world-weary woman going "oh, those are just the restless ghosts of my loved ones, they call out for me to join them every night". Besides that there's not too much I found scary about the story: the ghosts don't leave the bridge, and our MC doesn't seem like...

This. I like this. It isn't a scary story, per se. At least, there's nothing shocking, nothing that gets your blood pressure up, no "oh my god" scenes with terrifying monsters and demons. But it is still a horror story, a bit of an exploration into the depths of human hate. I think that the...

I agree with @Meduchi. For what it's worth. This would be an AWESOME shonen manga; I'd pick it up in a heartbeat. Dark themes that aren't just "let's have some rape now", an origin story that cements some nice points about the MC, and it's even specific enough and low enough in terms of power...

Not quite as horrific as some of Ito's other stories, considering that there is very little that is uncanny about the mummies or the religious order (oh, they wanna convert people to be followers? What religion doesn't? And they even let the kids escape). Even at the end, where the trio gets...

This might be my favorite volume out of all of Junji Ito. It really puts a human face to the horror that goes on, to the point that you get stories where the protagonist is actually the horrorterror (Memory, The Bully, Love is Scripted, etc.) and where the horrorterror gets to have a bit of...

Lol, so the kid is punished for trusting a lower-class family with his home? This is quite a moral to be sending through horror. I mean, seriously, all his problems would never have appeared if he'd just been even meaner and refused to let the weird dirty low-class mold people rent his place...

Oh! It's like Ged and the gebbeth from A Wizard of Earthsea. Except with more horror elements, somehow.

@Bourbon It's entirely possible that Minami is genderfluid, like Tedd Verres from EGS. And of course the premise of the comic is unrealistic, but that doesn't mean parts of it can't apply to real life. The X-Men are a group of superpowered beings that could never exist, but they've traditionally...

Is this a narrative about trans people? Seriously, this is way too poetic compared to the other stuff in this album.