Uzumaki

By Junji Itō

Subjects: Japan, fiction, Death, Blessing and cursing, Horror tales, Cartoons and comics, Infection, Comic books, strips, Comics & graphic novels, east asian style, manga, horror, Comic books, strips, etc, Graphic novels, Horror comic books, strips

Description: Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: "uzumaki," the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world which causes the inhabitants to go mad.