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I figured I'd post some links to the works of one of my most favorite horror writers, Junji Ito. His comics are brilliant and are an excellent change of pace from North American horror stories.

About Junji Ito and his work:
Born in Gifu Prefecture in 1963, he was inspired from a young age by his older sister's drawing and Kazuo Umezu's comics and thus took an interest in drawing horror comics himself. Nevertheless, upon graduation he trained as a dental technician, and until the early 1990s he juggled his dental career with his increasingly successful hobby — even after being selected as the winner of the prestigious Umezu prize for horror manga.

Ito's universe is very cruel and capricious; his characters often find themselves victims of malevolent unnatural circumstances for no discernible reason or punished out of proportion for minor infractions against an unknown and incomprehensible natural order.

His longest work, the three-volume Uzumaki, is about a town's obsession with spirals: people become variously fascinated with, terrified of, and consumed by the countless occurrences of the spiral in nature. Apart from the ghastly, convincingly-drawn deaths, the book projects an effective atmosphere of creeping fear as the town's inhabitants become less and less human, and more and more bizarre things begin to happen.

Before Uzumaki, Ito was best known for Tomie, a comic series about a beautiful, teasing and eternally youthful high school girl who inspires her stricken admirers to murder each other in fits of jealous rage. Eventually, unable to cope with her coy flirtation and their desire to possess Tomie completely, they are inevitably compelled to kill her — only to discover that, regardless of the method they chose to dispose of her body, her body will always regenerate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junji_Ito

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Uzumaki:

http://rapidshare.com/files/162479835/Uzumaki_Ch_1-9.rar 
http://rapidshare.com/files/162476992/Uzumaki_Ch_9-20.rar

Tomie:

http://rapidshare.com/files/162485922/Tomie_-_Volume_01.rar 
http://rapidshare.com/files/162483812/Tomie_-_Volume_02.rar

Flesh Colored Horror:

http://rapidshare.com/files/162481892/Flesh-Coloured_Horror_-_Junji_Ito__eng_.rar

Lovesick Dead:

http://rapidshare.com/files/162487023/Lovesick_Dead-_Junji_Ito.cbz

The Enigma of Amigara Fault:

http://rapidshare.com/files/162487725/Falling_-_Enigma_of_Amigara_Fault_-_Junji_Ito.rar

Gyo:

http://rapidshare.com/files/162489798/Gyo_-_Volume_01.cbr 
http://rapidshare.com/files/162492300/Gyo_-_Volume_02.cbr

Enjoy!
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