Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories Kindle & comiXology

A selection of some of Junji Ito's best short stories! Need I say more?Ok fine, they're all great! True to Ito's style they're full of deranged and through-provoking concepts mixed with evocative and terrifying imagery. Sure the characters are somewhat underdeveloped and thin, but that's easy enough to overlook in favor of all the nightmare-inducing imagery.It's hard to pick favorites in a collection this good, but here are a few that are really burned into my brain:"Hanging Blimp" - a rash of suicides that quickly escalates into a full-blown apocalypse of giant floating heads with nooses; as wild in concept as it is hard to explain."Marionette Mansion" - a family who have built a house allowing them to be fully controlled like marionette dolls by strings and people in the ceiling; also a creepy demon puppet that causes excruciating havoc in the end."The Long Dream" - a frightened hospital patient whose dreams continue to increase in length (though his sleep time remains the same) and whose body begins to transform because of it; a really interesting concept with some shocking images.There's also one story, called "Greased," that I won't ever read again just because it was so effectively gross. And not like in a gory way or anything, I just can't handle greasy pimple stuff (you weirdo pimple-popping video watchers will love it :P).

This and Smashed are two of my favorites of Junji Ito's works! Absolutely worth adding it to your collection. His commentary after each story is also fascinating!

Creative cover and printing. The upside down and backwards styling pleased my granddaughter

I completely intended to read this one slowly, spacing the stories out, but once I started, I just couldn’t put the book down. Junji Ito is a more recent discovery of mine, but I’ve become addicted to his work in recent months.This is a great selection for those new to Ito. It features nine of his favorite stories, plus one bonus new story. I was already familiar with many of these due to the Junji Ito Collection animated series, but it was still enjoyable reading the originals. The collection even featured two of my favorite segments from the show, “Fashion Model” (about a deranged and frightening looking model) and “The Long Dream” (about a man whose dreams last for years at a time).My other favorite stories in this collection include the surreal story, “Hanging Blimp” about giant balloons bearing people’s faces attacking their human lookalikes. The bonus story was also super spooky, featuring the same freaky model from “Fashion Model.” The only story I didn’t personally like was “Greased.” It was well done but just a little too gross for me.This is a great collection for both those new to Ito and long term fans of his. Each story is followed by a note from Ito explaining the origins of the story, so even if you’re familiar with these tales already, Shiver is worth checking out for those interesting bonus author notes.

Overall this is one of my more fav junji ito mangas you should def pick it up

Cant wait to read it

Few horror cartoonists—if any—elicit the shudders that I feel when I read a tale by Junji Ito of Japan. The current widespread availability of his work in the United States shows an increasing interest here, and it’s not hard to fathom why this is so. My favorite stories by this mangaka are his short, standalone tales. His drawings are fairly realistic with simple clean character designs, but when he adds texture or renders a “shock panel,” his art gets significantly darker, more detailed, and quite vivid.The Ito collection entitled Shiver is my favorite of what I’ve read so far, though Fragments of Horror has some gems in it as well as well. In the former, Ito contrives a series of interesting weird fiction scenarios that grow more unsettling as the stories progress, and his shock panels leap off of the page and are truly unsettling. These are not “fun” images of zombies munching on a victim or some vampire’s sanguinary sucking, but genuinely disturbing nightmares that put a bad smell in the air that hangs between the tip of your nose and the open book.I have read (and watched and written and filmed) a lot of repellant stuff, but the acne-centric story ‘Greased’ is a truly repulsive wonder, as are the revelations in the story “Shiver.” In addition to these and other repugnant morsels, nonsensical but engrossing nightmares that seem stolen straight from Ito’s id are explored in ‘Hanging Blimps,’ and the premise of ‘Marionette Mansion’ is a very bizarre original about a family that chooses to give control of their limbs over to unseen controllers in the crawlspace above. Clever premises, engaging mysteries, malodorous shock panels, and nightmare wanderings combine in the uniquely unsettling and uncommonly vivid work of Junji Ito, which I highly recommend to horror fans.

Junji Ito realmente tem um superpoder de fazer histórias grotescas, nojentas e ao mesmo tempo fascinantes, e aqui não é diferente. Shiver reúne alguns dos contos favoritos do autor e acho que estamos em sintonia porque eu também amei esses contos. E recentemente ganhamos uma edição nacional lindíssima, com certeza quero ter na estante!Meus contos favoritos:Hanging BalloonsThe Long Dream (simplesmente sencaional)GreasedMarionette MansionPainter (já havia lido em Tomie)Honored AncestorsIndico muito mesmo!

eine tolle Sammlung an Geschichten, wenn man an Horror Mangas interessiert ist!

This book arrived in almost perfect condition and was amazing to read

En inglés, tapa dura, y super rápido el envio

Different stories that aren’t particularly scary, more haunting. It not so much the story but the art that stick with you.