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Legendary horror author Junji Ito presents six stories that will make your blood run cold!","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48748152881371,"sku":"9781974754663-RETAIL","price":31.45,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/36835f56-5d3d-4e84-b7d6-d99374c74b53.jpg?v=1778038523"},{"product_id":"9781421579153-retail-gyo-2-in-1-deluxe-edition","title":"Gyo (2-in-1 Deluxe Edition)","description":"The floating smell of death hangs over the island. What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene... So begins Tadashi and Kaori's spiral into the horror and stench of the sea. Here is the creepiest masterpiece of horror manga ever from the creator of  Uzumaki , Junji Ito. Hold your breath until all is revealed.  Something's rotten in Okinawa...","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48798700142811,"sku":"9781421579153-RETAIL","price":31.45,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b44aef36-2238-4f8a-b856-3535cf8dd950_d8ef6dd4-6963-4afe-a6dd-90944e20ebf7.jpg?v=1779385588"},{"product_id":"9781974703760-retail-frankenstein-junji-ito-story-collection","title":"Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection","description":"The master of horror manga brings the world's greatest horror novel-Frankenstein-back to life. Junji Ito meets Mary Shelley! The master of horror manga bends all his skill into bringing the anguished and solitary monster-and the fouler beast who created him-to life with the brilliantly detailed chiaroscuro he is known for. Also included are six tales of Oshikiri-a high school student who lives in a decaying mansion connected to a haunted parallel world. 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Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death.   Osamu Dazai's immortal-and supposedly autobiographical-work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo's mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. This is the ultimate in art by Ito, proof that nothing can surpass the terror of the human psyche. Mine has been a life of much shame.   I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.   Plagued by a maddening anxiety, the terrible disconnect between his own concept of happiness and the joy of the rest of the world, Yozo Oba plays the clown in his dissolute life, holding up a mask for those around him as he spirals ever downward, locked arm-in-arm with death.   Osamu Dazai's immortal-and supposedly autobiographical-work of Japanese literature, is perfectly adapted here into a manga by Junji Ito. The imagery wrenches open the text of the novel one line at a time to sublimate Yozo's mental landscape into something even more delicate and grotesque. 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Ten tales that celebrate the sinister and hilarious world of Junji Ito's favorite antihero, Soichi!","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48798768038107,"sku":"9781974739028-RETAIL","price":31.45,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/66474ffb-dae5-4ade-aeac-7716cff25c05.jpg?v=1779386065"},{"product_id":"9781974752256-retail-the-liminal-zone-vol-2-volume-2","title":"The Liminal Zone, Vol. 2: Volume 2","description":"Four-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito presents brand-new nightmares! Welcome to the liminal zone, where things beyond your wildest imagination await. What fate awaits when death is not the end?  A group of four university students stumbles upon a deserted, decaying village deep in the mountains only to find an enormous perpetual motion machine still at work there. 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