Uzumaki Vol 1 Author:Junji Ito Kur'zu-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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirl... more »pools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kur'zu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...« less
This book is amazing. My favorite book of all time, easy. I didn't know I liked horror manga until I read this. All my friends borrow it. It is my favorite of the 3 volumes.
Easily one of the best horror comics of all time. Ito takes an ordinary phenomenon, a spiral, and turns it into something terrifying. It's pretty gross in a lot of the stories, but the grossness/violence is never senseless.
The entire series is excellent, and ends in a classic Japanese horror finish.