Just in time for Halloween, Junji Ito follows up his latest collection of short stories — Alley — with a fascinating look into his creative process in Uncanny: The Origins of Fear. Uncanny gives us a window into the macabre master’s mind like never before. Mixing memoir with an overview of horror in manga, Ito […]
A semester-at-sea goes horribly awry when Liv’s ex-bestfriend goes missing the first night of the program. As Liv tries to uncover what really happened, her discoveries lead her to believe that the ship holds eerie secrets, making her wonder what else it might be hiding. Those We Drown is an atmospheric debut perfect for fans of What We Harvest and That Weekend. Keep reading to hear from Amy Goldsmith about how the Horror genre has inspired her and what Horror books she recommends YA readers pick up next.
Horror manga sounds like a straightforward concept, but the stories vary widely: in Junji Ito’s Gyo, Uzumaki, and Shiver, bits of everyday life suddenly go haywire in horrific ways; things with teeth haunt the vampire saga Happiness; tension sustains the zombie-survival epic I Am a Hero; and a streak of humor runs through the assistants-to-the-dead series […]
The 2018 Eisner Awards, to be presented this coming Friday at San Diego Comic-Con, are the premier awards for the comics industry. While they have never suffered from the kind of controversy the Hugo Awards faced a couple of years ago, there are always a few good arguments to be had about what should have […]
No one does body horror quite like the Japanese. The genre is, by definition, deeply disturbing already, offering up mutations, sickeningly visceral takes on monsters, and fates worth than death. But the Japanese version of it is just somehow…more, in all respects, and more unsettling than its American and European counterparts. From the biomechanoid insanity […]
