Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories

Hand-picked by the master of Japanese horror himself, Shiver gathers nine of Junji Ito's finest short stories into a single chilling volume, each one personally selected by the author and presented alongside his own notes and commentary. Across these pages, the familiar texture of everyday life quietly comes apart: an innocuous secondhand record, an artist's unsettling fixation on a beautiful face, a dream that stretches on far longer than it should—each ordinary beginning spirals into a nightmare only Ito could envision. The lineup spans some of his most celebrated works, including "Used Record," "Shiver," "Fashion Model," "Hanging Blimp," "Marionette Madness," "Painter," "The Long Dream," "Honored Ancestors," and "Greased," together weaving a varied yet unified tapestry of dread—cursed objects, unraveling bodies, obsessive madness, and encounters with things that have no rightful place in this world. Completing the collection is "Fashion Model: Cursed Frame," an all-new story never before published, appearing exclusively in this edition. With most of these tales also adapted in the Junji Ito Collection anime, this annotated volume offers both devoted fans and newcomers an intimate, authoritative journey through the nightmares of a true horror master.