Book description
A best-of story selection by the master of horror manga.
This volume includes nine of Junji Ito's best short stories, as selected by the author himself and presented with accompanying notes and commentary. An arm peppered with tiny holes dangles from a sick girl's window... After an idol hangs herself,…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Shiver as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Shiver is one of those books I'd recommend to people who don't like manga, graphic novels, or comic books. I wouldn't tell them because I would want them to pick the book up, skim through the pages, and see the brilliance for themselves.
Junji Ito's stories are so unique and disturbing. They crawl under your skin and latch onto your muscles. A few burrow through the sinew and bury themselves in your bones.
"Hanging Balloons" is my favorite of the collection. There's nothing like it. And there is no one who has such a deft, while still overt hand at…
Junji Ito is an undisputed master of Japanese horror manga.
This collection is the perfect introduction to Ito’s creepy, gruesome, and yet somehow always grin-inducing artistic and narrative style.
I had previously read several of Ito’s longer graphic novels, including Black Paradox, Uzumaki, Gyo, and Remina. All of these come highly recommended. But Shiver has convinced me that Ito is at his very best in the graphic short story format.
Like Poe, like Lovecraft, Ito shows us how horror lurks just the other side of the ordinary, spreads fast once it trickles in, and destroys us before…
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A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.
German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…
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