The Works of Junji Ito
A great article on horror manga in honor of All Hallow’s Eve.
Ito manages to mine a rich variety of chills out of an otherwise innocent bit of geometry. In the process, he manages to capture the unsettling nature of dream logic in a graphic novel. The citizens of Kurôzu-cho gape in astonishment not just at the horror of these events, but at how ridiculous they are. They’re almost impossible to process, but they’re clearly happening. How can something be so absurd and so disturbing at the same time?
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