sarabearian 's review for:

Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1 by Junji Ito

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In the mood for the surreal and the grotesque? Junji Ito has you covered. His epic manga of a town’s descent into madness and destruction because of a ‘contamination with spirals’ starts off as a series of creepy vignettes, and culminates in an unsettling view of the ancient horror buried beneath the town’s foundations. Not for the squeamish, but as an avid horror reader (in both manga and text form), I very much enjoyed this trippy journey into the macabre. My favorite vignette was the lighthouse, but the ending tops it all. Spirals…they’re everywhere…
- Hillary D.