If you love a story about strange rituals, unusual cults, and the occult then this is the sort of story you'll gobble right up. Life now revolves around a strange factory of unknown origin, and even weirder are the all-consuming sirens that emanate from it each night. Alas, when he returns he finds that the once lively-though rural-village has turned into a ghost town. In the wake of a strange phone call from his parents and an ominous apparition at his window, Kyochi decides it's time for a family reunion. Turning his hand to folk horror, Ito crafts another bleak homecoming in Village of the Siren. The devastating reason for that will soon be revealed, but in the meantime, his arrival coincides with a trend of young women seeking out "crossroads fortunes." Soon the bodies of school girls who ask strangers for their fortunes begin to turn up brutally murdered but who is to blame? How does it connect with Ryusuke's pass? This wonderfully chilly mystery is one of the most memorable of Ito's tales and introduces one of his scariest creations. The teen boy is moving back to his hometown after years away, but the simple notion of it haunts him. The first-and throughline-story from his Lovesickness collection is a great example of just that. Ito often writes of love and how it can curse us. However, each chapter of Uzumaki centers on a different character’s encounters with a clay pot, ringlets of hair, a snail shell and other spiraled things.14 Images 13. This is one of the only standalone collections on this list, as Ito often writes in a short story format. The manga takes place in a small town where residents are haunted by all-consuming visions of spirals.
Uzumaki is one of Junji Ito’s most well-known stories.
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