Best horror graphic novels2/9/2024 Read our full review of The Hole here! Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn It gets under your skin and frustrates as much as it frightens. This is a terrifying thriller of a novel, the likes of which I’ve never seen. And so are we, unable to call for help or warn him. Our protagonist has no way of telling visitors about his fears and suspicions he’s trapped in his mind. her house, and proceeds to dig a hole in the yard. She takes him in, settles him into a bed in. His wife is dead, and her mother is the only caretaker our protagonist has. The Hole’s protagonist is a man rendered immobile after a car crash. No, what makes The Hole a real horror masterpiece is how the novel examines helplessness, and the enemy in your home. Her method of frightening us goes far, far beyond tapping into our fear of death, a strange phobia, a disease, or something supernatural. She knows how brittle it is, and what upsets and frustrates us. Pyun, like the aforementioned Ito, knows the secret of the psyche. It was her novel City of Ash And Red(translated by Sora Kim-Russell) that really cemented this, but for out-and-out terror it’s The Holeyou want to read (also translated by Kim-Russell). Hye-young Pyun is my favourite Korean author. Translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell Read More: Essential Horror Manga The Hole by Hye-young Pyun Once again, Ito’s are the best horror graphic novels around. I know I haven’t actually talked here about the stories in Shiver and that’s because you owe it to yourself to go in blind, and I hope that my painfully restrained gushing has been enough to convince you. But rest assured, Ito is the best manga artist in the horror business. These are visual stories, after all, and if the images didn’t carry the same creep factor as the stories and events, they’d be useless. He gets phobias, he knows what makes us uncomfortable and upset.Īnd not only can he weave a masterful story around these fears, but he can draw them. ![]() It’s something about his understanding of what really upsets the human psyche. The man is the horror genius, no hyperbole. A collection of self-contained short horror stories that are, each and everyone one of them, chilling to the point of reducing you to tears. Shiveris a fantastic jumping-on point for new Ito fans. Ito’s are the best horror graphic novels (or manga or comics or whatever you’d prefer to call them), bar none. There’s not enough paper on Earth for me to write down all my happy thoughts on Ito.īut I’ll start by saying that if, like me, you’re someone who’s rarely been truly unsettled – rendered sleepless or terrified – by horror novels and scary stories, then give Junji Ito a try. It is beyond tempting to turn this list into a gush over Junji Ito before even getting properly started.
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