Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection

by Junji Ito (Created by)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

A snatch-and-grab of the twisted and the revolting from horror king Junji Ito. There's murder, abandoned buildings, mollusk tongues and so much more.

Three-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito invites you to the horrific Tomb Town and beyond.

Three-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito invites you to the horrific Tomb Town and beyond.

Countless tombstones stand in rows throughout a small community, forming a bizarre tableau. What fate awaits a brother and sister after a traffic accident in this town of the dead? In another tale, a girl falls silent, her tongue transformed into a slug. Can a friend save her? Then, when a young man moves to a new town, he finds the house next door has only a single window. What does his grotesque neighbor want, calling out to him every evening from that lone window?

Fresh nightmares brought to you by horror master Junji Ito.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781974736041
Publisher:	VIZ Media LLC
Publication date:	03/28/2023
Pages:	344
Sales rank:	56,098
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Junji Ito made his professional manga debut in 1987 and since then has gone on to be recognized as one of the greatest contemporary artists working in the horror genre. His titles include Tomie and Uzumaki, which have been adapted into live-action films; Gyo, which was adapted into an animated film; and his books Black Paradox, Deserter, Fragments of Horror, Frankenstein, Lovesickness, No Longer Human, Remina, Sensor, Shiver, Smashed, The Liminal Zone, and Venus in the Blind Spot, all of which are available from VIZ Media.

He is a four-time Eisner Award winner. In 2019 his collection Frankenstein won in the “Best Adaptation from Another Medium” category, and in 2021 he was awarded “Best Writer/Artist,” while Remina received the award for “Best U.S. Edition of International Material (Asia).” Lovesickness won “Best U.S. Edition” in 2022.

Editorial Reviews

01/30/2023

This trick-or-treat bag of terror tales from horror master Ito (Uzumaki) is spiked with dark humor and dream-logic absurdity. “Tombs” sets the tone, set in a town where tombstones sprout spontaneously from the spots where people die, forcing the living residents to navigate streets and home interiors choked with grave markers. In “Clubhouse,” teenage girls are possessed by the ghosts of student radicals past (“We can use all the comrades we can get”). “The Strange Tale of the Tunnel” begins as a classic ghost story before taking a sharp turn into bizarre science fiction. “Slug Girl” presents the simple yet profoundly disturbing character of a girl cursed with a slug for a tongue, and the standout “The Bloody Story of Shirosuna” follows a young doctor to a village with a strange relationship with blood. As always, Ito’s fine-lined art has an elegant neo-gothic appeal. He fills his pages with moody neighborhoods, pretty girls with haunted eyes, and grotesqueries that range from a massive man-eating sea monster to little floating hair balls that broadcast people’s secret thoughts. Though not necessarily the very best work from the prolific, endlessly imaginative artist, this is one of the stronger selections of his short manga, one that Ito’s and all horror fans won’t want to miss. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly