Genre Guide – Horror Manga

Four people intent on killing themselves meet through the suicide website Black Paradox and as they wander together in search of the perfect death, fate opens a door that leads them to a rather bizarre destiny.

The six hair-raising stories selected for this collection feature an array of unnerving characters and scenarios brought to life in Inuki’s signature art style, in the tradition of Junji Ito, Kazuo Umezu, Shintaro Kago, and Junko Mizuno.

Ordinary middle school student Seiichi Osabe receives love and care from his mother Seiko until an incident changes the family dynamic forever and reveals that a mother’s love can go too far.

After a dangerous encounter with a malevolent spirit, Keitaro Gentoga wants nothing to do with the supernatural. Unfortunately for this reluctant ghost magnet, he’s stuck helping Yayoi Hozuki, the elementary schooler he’s tutoring who’s intent on capturing Japan’s most terrifying ghosts and ghouls until she’s found the one that took her mom! Filled with truly fantastic art, this manga masterfully mixes horror and comedy to make a compelling read with every volume and new chapter.

Out of nowhere, an entire school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers find themselves not dead but stranded in a terrifying wasteland where they must fight to survive.

Social outcast Nakoshi is missing his memories and emotions and lives out of a car until eccentrically attired medical student Ito Manabu suddenly shows up and persuades Nagoshi to get trepanation surgery, which involves drilling holes in a person’s skull.

A normal girl was living a normal life-until she wasn’t. One day, she could see…everything. What’s a girl to do when hideous monsters appear no matter which way she turns? This manga is a great mix of horror and comedy, with fantastic art and a great female lead character.

In these interconnected short horror stories, a mysterious young woman slithers her way into the lives of unsuspecting people like the legendary serpent for which she is named–Orochi.

Carried into modern Japan from a forgotten past, the being known as Ogushi haunts and tortures humans of all kinds. Little is known about Ogushi’s curse, except that it resides in an unexpected place – human hair.

Hearing the news of the passing of his childhood friend Ushio, Shinpei returns to his hometown on the remote island of Hitogashima to attend her funeral–but little does he know that it is the beginning of a summer full of time-twisting mystery and horror.

Kurouzu-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 is haunted not by a person or being but a pattern: UZUMAKI, the spiral–the hypnotic secret shape of the world. Check out the movie!