Shiver: Selected Stories

A best-of story selection by the master of horror manga.

This volume includes nine of Junji Ito?s best short stories, as selected by the author himself and presented with accompanying notes and commentary. An arm peppered with tiny holes dangles from a sick girl?s window? After an idol hangs herself, balloons bearing faces appear in the sky, some even featuring your own face? An amateur film crew hires an extremely individualistic fashion model and faces a real bloody ending? An offering of nine fresh nightmares for the delight of horror fans.

1. Used Record or Second-Hand Record , a story about people fighting over the ownership of a record that has a singer's singing as they died recorded on it.

2. Shiver, a story about a cursed jade stone that causes holes to open up all over a person's body if they're around it.

3. Fashion Model, a story about an oddly ominous fashion model.

4. Hanging Balloons, a story about balloon headed doppelgangers out to hunt their counterparts the moment they go outside.

5. Marionette Mansion, a story about a family who rather than deciding what they do or how they live, they instead hire puppeteers to control their actions via strings from the attic of their home.

6. Pain...