Kurôzu-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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town... more>> is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return... <<less

1. The Woman Next Door... more>>

2. Sound of Grass

3. Graveman

4. The Seashore

5. Just the Two of Us

6. The Scarlet Circle <<less

Every man who encounters Tomie becomes obsessed with her and eventually kills and dismembers her. But Tomie is not human, and always comes back...... more>>

Notes:

1) There is a third volume of Tomie called "Tomie: Again" which was included in the new japanese reissued two- volume version of the Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection (伊藤潤二 恐怖博物館). These new stories are not included in the original ComicsOne editions of Tomie, but are available in Dark Horse's Museum of Terror volume 2.

2) Besides Junji Ito's Horror Comic Collection (Also called Museum of Terror), in 2000 Tomie was also published in a compilatory tankoubon called "Tomie, The Complete of Tomie" -「富江」 （全）THE COMPLETE OF TOMIE-. Regardless of the title, this volume does not include "Tomie Again" within its pages.

3) Some people also consider "Tomie no kyoufu gaka" [ シリーズ富江の 恐怖 画家] as part of the Tomie franchise. Tomie no kyoufu gaka was the first Tomie's compilatory tankoubon that was ever released (It was published in 1996) and features five stand-alone stories (Gaka, Ansatsu, Mouhatsu, Youjo and Takitsubo) that were published a year later in Junji Ito's Horror Comic Collection. <<less

The first two volumes contain thematically linked but self-contained stories concerning Tomie - a beautiful young woman with the power to seduce and dominate any male, from small boys to elderly men. Later, the series leaves these characters behind and focuses on stand-alone gothic horror pieces.... more>>

--- Junji Ito's Museum of Terror

1. Tomie

Tomie

Photograph

Kiss

Mansion

Revenge

The Basin of the Waterfall

2. Tomie - Part 2

Tomie Part 2

Basement

Painter

Murder

Hair

Orphan Girl

3. Flesh-Colored Horror

Long Hair in the Attic

Approval

Beehive

Dying Young

Headless Sculptures

Flesh-Colored Horror

4. The Face Burglar

Included one-shots:

The Face Burglar

Scarecrows

Falling

Red String

My Dear Ancestors

The Hanging Balloons

5. Souichi's Diary of Delights

Included one-shots:

Fun Summer Vacation

Fun Winter Vacation

Souichi's Diary of Delights

Souichi's Home Tutor

Mannequin Teacher

Souichi's Birthday

6. Souichi's Diary of Curses

Included one-shots:

Souichi's Selfish Curse

The Room with Four Walls (The Silent Room)

Coffin

Rumours

Fashion Model

7. Slug Girl

Included one-shots:

Slug Girl

Thing that Drifted Ashore

Mold

The Chill (Shivers)

The Inn (Ryokan)

The Groaning Drain

Bio-House

8. Blood-Bubble Bushes

Included one-shots:

Blood-Bubble Bushes

Unbearable Maze (Unbearable Labyrinth)

Sword of the Reanimator

The Will

The Bridge

The Devil's Logic

The Conversation Room (Sharing Rooms)

9. Hallucinations

Included one-shots:

Hallucinations

Bog of the Living Dead

Penpal

Intruder

Further Tales of Oshikiri

Further Tales of Oshikiri: The Walls

10. House of the Marionettes

Included one-shots:

Ice Cream Bus

Club House (Gang House)

The Smoking Club

Second-hand Records

Den of the Sleep Demon (The Sleeping Room)

The Gift Bearer (Gift Man)

House of the Marionettes (House of the Puppets)

11. The Town Without Streets

Included one-shots:

The Town Without Streets

Near Miss!

Maptown (Road Map)

Village of the Sirens

The Supernatural Transfer Student

12. The Bully

Included one-shots:

The Bully

A Deserter in the House (House of the Deserter)

Heart of a Father

Memory

The Back Alley

Love as Scripted

In the Soil

13. The Circus is Here

Included one-shots:

The Circus is Here

Gravetown (Street of Gravestones)

The Window Next Door (The Adjacent Window)

The Bizarre Hikizuri Siblings: Narumi's Boyfriend (Sleuth Kids: The Second Daughter's Lover)

The Bizarre Hikizuri Siblings: The Seance (Sleuth Kids: The Assembly of Fallen Ghost)

14. The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel

Included one-shots:

Long Dream

The Story of the Mysterious Tunnel

The Bronze Statue

Drifting Spores (Floating Particles)

Blood Sickness of the White Sands Village

15. Lovesick Dead

Included one-shots:

The Intersection's Pretty Boy

The Troubled Woman

Shadow

Night of Screams

Sequel: The White Clothed Pretty Boy

16. Frankenstein

Included one-shots:

Frankenstein

Hell O'Dollies (A Doll's Hellish Burial)

Memories of Real Shit

--- Junji Ito Collection Masterpiece

01-02.

03. (Souichi's Selfish Curse)

04. (Lovesick Dead)

05. (A Deserter in the House)

06. (The Back Alley)

07. (Headless Sculptures)

08. (The Groaning Drain)

09. (Gravetown)

10.

11. (Smashed) <<less

Mine has been a life of much shame.... more>>

I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.

Plagued by maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death. <<less

Something is rotten in Okinawa...the floating stench of death hangs over the island..What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene...so begins Tadashi and Kaori's spiral into the horror (and stench) of the sea.... more>>

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*Includes two bonus stories called

• The Sad Tale of the Principal Post in vol 1.

• The Enigma of the Amigara Fault in vol 2. <<less

The story centres on the oddities that appear in the distortions within everyday life.

The Kafkaesque autobiography of a diplomat who compares himself to Grigori Rasputin, and what happens after he gets caught up in a political purge during the early 2000s.... more>>

A legal thriller with a dash of geopolitics. <<less

This is a horror/sci-fi story about a giant planet consuming creature from another dimension that a scientist discovers and mistakenly identifies as a planet. Being... more>> given the honor to name it as its discover, the professor chooses to name it after his only daughter, Remina, but when Hellstar Remina is headed on a direct collision course with Earth the world goes nuts and all the people in the city start a witch hunt to kill Remina, thinking she is somehow to blame. <<less

An anthology of horror one-shots by famous mangaka in the genre.... more>>

1. Snow White - Shirayukihime - (Itou Junji) -- Snow White gets thrown in the dungeon for being the fairest of them all.

2. The Story that Ends with the Prologue (Takahashi Yousuke) -- The rather wacky encounter between a normal high school boy and a strange girl.

3. Spiritual Medicine (Inuki Kanako) -- "Illness comes from the spirit," or so goes an old Japanese saying. The mind and the body have a strange relationship with each other...

4. The Bookworm - Bungaku Seinen - (Amagappa Shoujogun) -- An otherwise normal library has a rather unusual regular visitor.

5. A Circus Tale (Hino Hideshi) - The dramatic story of a mother-and-son duo who work in a travelling circus.

8. Caged Bird (Osada Noto)

9. The “Badger” Has Begun (Takahashi Yousuke) - Of dreams, cheating and cheating in dreams... <<less

1 volume anthology based on ghost stories in the mountains.... more>>

Includes Kamigami no Yama - Makyou no Mine <<less

Tomie is once again the target of a flirtatious man, but things change once this man takes over her body.... more>>

A new Tomie story, originally included with the Kanzenban release of the Junji Ito Collection. <<less

A manga about people trying to kill themselves, but weird stuff happens instead.... more>>

01 - Group Suicide

02 - Strange Tale of the Pylorus

03 - Paradoxical Night

04 - Dr. Suka's Villa

05 - The Spirit World Project

06 - To The Dazzling Future

07 - The Licking Woman + Mystery Pavillion (Ones-shots) <<less

Horror manga author Mr. J moves into his new house with his fiancée A-ko. Much to his chagrin, she brings two guests with her.

A young woman comes across a remote village that has an unusual form of worship.

A collection of stories:... more>>

01. Lovesick Dead 1: The Intersection's Pretty Boy

(Shibito no Koiwazurai Dai-1 Hanashi: Yotsutsuji no Bishounen, 死びとの恋わずらい 第１話 四つ辻の美少年)

02. Lovesick Dead 2: The Troubled Woman

(Shibito no Koiwazurai Dai-2 Hanashi: Nayamu Onna, 死びとの恋わずらい 第２話 悩む女)

03. Lovesick Dead 3: Shadow

(Shibito no Koiwazurai Dai-3 Hanashi: Kage, 死びとの恋わずらい 第３ 話 影)

04. Lovesick Dead 4: Night of Screams

(Shibito no Koiwazurai Dai-4 Hanashi: Zekkyou no Yoru, 死びとの恋わずらい 第４話 絶叫の夜)

05. Lovesick Dead 5: The White Clothed Pretty Boy

(Shibito no Koiwazurai Yobanashi: Shiro Fuku no Bishounen, 死びとの恋わずらい 余話 白服の美少年)

06. The Bizarre Hikizuri Siblings 1: Narumi's Boyfriend (also titled Sleuth Kids: The Second Daughter's Lover)

(Kaiki Hikizuri Kyoudai Dai-1 Hanashi: Jijo no Koibito, 怪奇ひきずり兄弟 第１話 次女の恋人)

07. The Bizarre Hikizuri Siblings 2: The Seance (also titled Sleuth Kids: The Assembly of Fallen Ghost)

(Kaiki Hikizuri Kyoudai Dai-2 Hanashi: Koureikai, 怪奇ひきずり兄弟 第２話 降霊会)

08. Phantom Mansion

(Gentsuu Yashiki, 幻痛屋敷)

09. Ribs Woman

(Abarabone no Onna, あばら骨の女)

Yuki is so ashamed of her figure that she refuses to go swimming, either at school or on the beach. She believes her ribs look strange, and hears that she can have plastic surgery to alter the appearance of her ribcage. Yuki goes to a nearby clinic that performs the procedure, but is told that she must pass a mental health assessment before she can have the surgery.

10. Memories of Real Shit

(Real Unko no Omoide, リアルウンコノオモイデ) <<less

Follows the exploits of a pair of siblings who're notorious for their demonic acts: Azawa Yuuma and Chizumi.... more>>

Main story:

Dissolving Classroom

Worshipping Beauty (Dissolving Beauty)

Dissolving Apartment

Chizumi's Dissolving Love

The Demon's Conference

Bonus shorts:

Meet Again

Children of the Earth <<less

A woman enters a furniture store in search of a chair, but the proprietor is all too eager to reveal its past...

Voices in the Dark is a collection of horror shorts from Junji Ito, published in 2003. The stories themselves were previously published in bimonthly serials in magazines from Asahi Sonorama.... more>>

Story 1: Blood Slurping Darkness

Story 2: The Ghosts of Golden Time

Story 3: Roar of Ages

Story 4: Mystery of the Haunted House (Secret of the Haunted Mansion)

Story 5: Glyceride

Story 6: The Earthbound

Story 7: Dead Man Calling <<less

The Soichi Front... more>>

For 10 years, a woman named Michina Hirose has been looking for any shred of evidence that could lead her to the missing Tsujii family. While in a certain town, she sees children acting strangely, spitting nails at others, and trying to curse people, just like the youngest Tsujii son—Souichi—used to do. Learning that the children only started behaving that way after visiting a local haunted house, she decides to investigate further, but ends up with far more than she bargained for.

Soichi's Beloved Pet

A stray cat decides to follow Sayuri Tsujii home one day, and everyone in the house gets attached to her, deciding to name her Collon. But after Collon has a run-in with Sayuri's youngest brother—the gloomy, curse-happy Souichi—she begins to act strangely. Is this the result of a curse, or something else?

In The Valley of Mirrors

There is bitter enmity between two villages, facing each other across a river. But instead of erecting walls and battlements, they both decided to put up mirrors. What could this mean? And where did all the people disappear to, all those years ago?

Anything but a Ghost

While driving on a mountain road one night, Shigeru finds a girl covered in blood.

Library of Illusions

Koko lives with her husband Goro in a giant mansion full of books. The books are a family heirloom, and heâ??s fiercely protective of them, so it would really suck if something were to happen to them...

Songs in the Dark

There are songs that stick with us long after we've heard them; the song Tamayo hears while passing a street musician is one of those. However, even with a doctor's visit and medication, the song won't leave her. Seeking resolution, she tracks down the musician, Yu Kanade, and discovers that this "brain noise" is contagious, with Yu's entire audience falling prey to it. But why is Yu's song stuck in everyone's head?

Splatter Film

Ogi got lost while traveling in South America, but was saved by a kind tribe of people who sent him home with a pot of delicious nectar from a plant their religion is focused around. At home, he offers some to his friend Sugio, but warns him that he must not be noticed while eating it. Sugio loves the nectar, and finds that regular food just can't compare, so he and some of Ogi's other friends sneak in to eat it. However, they are met with a grisly sight, which is only just the beginning of the strange events that will befall them. <<less

N/A

A one-shot about a strange curse visited on a family after an archaeological dig.... more>>

One-shot in celebration of 30 years of Itou Junji's career. <<less

Shougo Yanagida is a horror mangaka who just moved into the Ghost Heights Saigou apartment block. Unfortunately, deadlines aren't his only problem. After being appointed... more>> the president of general affairs, he'll have to help out his fellow oddball tenants. <<less

N/A

Anthology that includes [m]The Summer Time Graduation Trip[/m]... more>>

This is the bonus manga chapter from KIHARA Hirokatsus light novel Kai, Sasu.

Plot summary: Two friends on their vacation decide to take a bath... <<less