Product Description

Dark Horse Comics is very proud to present Museum of Terror, a series of horror stories by Japan's foremost creator of horror manga. Full of compelling and charming characters and relationships, and featuring some of the finest comics art available, Junji Ito has seen his works translated into successful films in Japan. Ito's Uzumaki, the thrilling and grotesque manga and film, has already found success in America, and now we present "Tomie," the first story in this fantastic series. "Tomie" is the story of an eternally youthful and beautiful high school girl, whose admirers are obsessed to the point of murdering her. But to their horror, she is reincarnated over and over. "Tomie" also became a popular film in Japan, and now it launches Dark Horse's series of Ito's horrific works, Museum of Terror.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #329958 in Books
• Published on: 2006-07-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 376 pages

Customer Reviews

a master at work
junji ito shows with the museum of terrors a master horror writer at work. The Tomie series are just fantastic, but be warned some of the ideas and illustrations really get to you. Love him

Genuinely Creepy
Being a long-time horror fan, I've tried a few horror mangas over the last few years and found them to be generally unsatisfying, mostly due to the artists' insistance on angling for laughs instead of disquiet. A while back, though, I picked up Junji Ito's Uzumaki, inspired by the quality of the film based on it, and finally found a horror manga with some substance and genuine chills. Based on that, I decided to try his other work.

The first two volumes of Museum of Terror (all I've read to date) are astonishingly good. They collect the tales of Tomie, a teenage girl with a starfish-like ability to regenerate wounds, as well as the power to make almost any man fall insanely in love with her, usually with tragic consequences.

Ito riffs with these basic elements, taking Tomie and those whose lives she enters into progressively darker and more twisted realms, sometimes bordering on the surreal (the episode with the Sake brewery in volume 2 is particularly bizarre). Some of the images of the consequences of Tomie's regeneration rival David Croneberg for body horror and will haunt your nightmares afterwards.

The wealth of imagination, quick-but-effective characterisation and Ito's ability to push ideas beyond a safe zone make these the most memorable horror comics I've read since Alan Moore's classic run of Swamp Thing in the mid 1980s.

Junji shows how to do Horror in Comics.
A surprisingly entertaining early work from Junji 'Uzumaki' Ito. This first volume in the Museum Of Terror series introduces the unkillable teenage psycho-girl 'Tomie', don't really want to give away more of the story than that, suffice to say the origin of the character provides arguably the perfect sustainable horror setup.

While Uzumaki and Gyo readers might find Ito's artwork here cruder than they are used to, it's hard not to marvel at his rapid improvement in storytelling as the pages fly by, he really has a special flair for depicting the gruesome.

Effective horror in comics is extremely difficult to achieve, and Ito succeeds at least as well as the likes of Alan Moore's Swamp Thing or the EC horror comics for sure. In fact I'd certainly put Ito up there with any creator in the horror genre, in ANY medium, check him out.