[ouijaouija]

guys i've not read the whole thread but JUNJI ITO is the best, its really creepy style horror, reminiscent of imagery from HP Lovecraft.

Uzumaki, or Tomie are great ones to buy, he does a lot of short stories that have been collected into volumnes, you could probably find a few short stories online to get a taste of what its like, but the newest reprints are from Darkhorse.

[strange_adry]

As an horror manga I really liked Umineko no Naku Koro ni and the way it was turned in something like a shojo manga or a josei it was surprising but nice! :)

I see Uzumaki is pretty famous...I liked it but not the ending...

[rub7]

SOIL by Atsushi Kaneko is currently blowing my mind. It's more of a phycological thriller/detective/sci-fi manga, but there's definitely some horror elements in there that thoroughly creeped me out. Plus the art is so sexy - good brush work, clean but expressive.

[kimmm]

I'm so glad other people like horror manga and enjoyed ghost hunt. :) I liked ghost hunt the best and I have to say that 14 years old has to be my second favorite. I also like supernatural horror so if anyone knows anything good, give a shout out.

[Rue]

I've read several but my memory fails me again...I remember reading Franken Fran and Petshop of Horrors (quite nice and interesting in their own ways though it get "lighter"(?) several chapters in compared to how they were originally I think).

Another thing I remember reading but forgotten the title of is the one where there's this urban legend crazy lady in gothic lolita that wants to be your little sister and if you answered wrong to her question, she will make sure to be the best little sister for you, no matter who gets in her way and no matter the the cost.

[Master of Shikigami]

Itou Junji's manga all the way - especially Uzumaki.

He's got a very unique art style and all his works are full of original ideas and never cease to amaze you, no matter how much you think he can't come up with anything more bizarre than you've already been shown anymore. Also, Uzumaki actually got my more-than-fourty-years-old-mother-of-two-kids sister to manga, so yeah.

Honorable mention - Kiseijuu. Great manga with excellent art, well-written story full of twists and likeable characters. Also, you won't stumble upon something this surreal every day.

[hockeygirl219]

i don't know if you would classify it as scary but Another is quite scary to me. Me and my friend were reading it together and we got so scared. Every little noise after scared me

That scary korean comic is also quite scary!!!!

[Zeikfried]

I admit Junji Ito's works are good but I've never read one and felt they were actually scary. Regardless of the extremeness of each situation, the horror usually stems from a personal psychological level, which is hard to relate to. In contrast, one that always makes weary at night no matter how many times I've read it is "Fuan no Tane," "The Seeds of Anxiety." Each story is only a few pages long, but there is a high level of relatability, which literally plants seeds of anxiety in you. It makes you consider the possibility that each noise and trick of light might be something more paranormal, something more sinister than your own imaginings. Junji Ito, Hideshi Hino, Suehiro Maruo, and Kazuo Umezu are all great horror mangaka, but they create such elaborate worlds and such fantastic stories that it just does not seem possible in everyday life, thus eliminating a huge element of "scary" for me.

However, this doesn't mean they're not good. Just the opposite, their stories are amazing. I am always looking for the tagged genres horror and mystery, which lead to things like "Manhole," "Dragon Head," and "Corpse Party." I just read a bunch but I can't remember their titles. One just came out that seems like a Seinen Basketball Sports Romance manga, but suddenly an earthquake occurs and release a shadowy megalith tentacle monster thing that eats everyone in school. There was another one about a cruise ship sinking with a class of high school students, as a infectious zombie creating parasite turns passengers into murderous monsters.

What I don't find appealing are the really short stories that utilize cliche' horror themes. If anyone has read "Mantis Woman," that's a good example. It is basically a slasher with a few pages here an there of death, but no real meat to the story at all.

[Somnambulist]

Petshop of Horrors is what got me into horror manga. Everything about it was just beautiful. I love stories about "Just Desserts" etc. Others I've read are H.S.O.T.D. and Tokyo Akazukin. They have that nice eerie feel to them. Though TA is one of those ones that like to send your brain whirling with WTFery, but has a lot of graphic content in it so I wouldn't recommend it to anyone that doesn't like a lotta bit of guro in their manga.

Gantz and Berserk are my current obsessions though. They are my two top manga at the moment because of the realism of the characters, the plot and it's many twists, and the fact that when i read them I'm almost always on the edge of my seat.

[Shikoba]

Anything by Junji Ito. I wish I could put into words what it is about his works that entice and terrify me.
I was really stoked to hear Gyo was an anime, and watched it as soon as possible.
I can't remember which book it was in, or what chapter, but I recall a story where people were fascinated with holes in the side of a mountain that they were convinced they should go into, and it absolutely scared the shit out of me. :yomg:
I think he has a talent for bizarre and peculiarly terrifying situations that at first glance seem a little lame, but when you actually get into it are disturbing and thought provoking.

Zeikfried, on 09 April 2012 - 05:53 AM, said:

I admit Junji Ito's works are good but I've never read one and felt they were actually scary. Regardless of the extremeness of each situation, the horror usually stems from a personal psychological level, which is hard to relate to. In contrast, one that always makes weary at night no matter how many times I've read it is "Fuan no Tane," "The Seeds of Anxiety." Each story is only a few pages long, but there is a high level of relatability, which literally plants seeds of anxiety in you. It makes you consider the possibility that each noise and trick of light might be something more paranormal, something more sinister than your own imaginings. Junji Ito, Hideshi Hino, Suehiro Maruo, and Kazuo Umezu are all great horror mangaka, but they create such elaborate worlds and such fantastic stories that it just does not seem possible in everyday life, thus eliminating a huge element of "scary" for me.

However, this doesn't mean they're not good. Just the opposite, their stories are amazing. I am always looking for the tagged genres horror and mystery, which lead to things like "Manhole," "Dragon Head," and "Corpse Party." I just read a bunch but I can't remember their titles. One just came out that seems like a Seinen Basketball Sports Romance manga, but suddenly an earthquake occurs and release a shadowy megalith tentacle monster thing that eats everyone in school. There was another one about a cruise ship sinking with a class of high school students, as a infectious zombie creating parasite turns passengers into murderous monsters.

What I don't find appealing are the really short stories that utilize cliche' horror themes. If anyone has read "Mantis Woman," that's a good example. It is basically a slasher with a few pages here an there of death, but no real meat to the story at all.

For the most part I really agree with this, and despite my admiration for Junji Ito, I also appreciate that those stories are a little farfetched.
As well, I completely agree that 'Seeds of Anxiety' was one the most clever and cruel ideas, making it a fantastic read if you want to make yourself more than a little paranoid.

[dorodoro]

"Fuan no Tane" is such an excellent horror manga! I will pretty much always forget the name of it though! I feel like a lot of people don't really "get" it though, like when people think "horror" they're always waiting for something to jump out and start slashing up people. Fuan no Tane is such a creeping horror, and it's so casually mixed with the mundane that it seems so entirely plausible.

Other horror mangas I love are Drifting Classroom, and Dragon Head, both of which I'm actually still working my way through (even though I started Drifting Classroom like 5 years ago :X). Dragon Head is great for a Lord of the Flies "OMG this could totally happen, like at any moment" sort of scare. Not exactly a horror, and really more of a slice-of-life disaster story so far, if that's even a thing, is Furuya's 51 Ways To Save My Girlfriend. I really only mention it because, even though I've pretty much just started it, it reminds me a bit of Dragon Head, only a lot less terrifying, but still pretty horrible in a "This could totally happen" sort of way.

[carboncopy]

dorodoro, on 29 April 2012 - 02:28 AM, said:

Not exactly a horror, and really more of a slice-of-life disaster story so far, if that's even a thing, is Furuya's 51 Ways To Save My Girlfriend. I really only mention it because, even though I've pretty much just started it, it reminds me a bit of Dragon Head, only a lot less terrifying, but still pretty horrible in a "This could totally happen" sort of way.

Although that series did display characteristics of a survival-horror, it wasn't really scary since it felt more like an earthquake survival guidebook lol Although the mangaka did a pretty good job with the story to make it interesting.

[dorodoro]

carboncopy, on 29 April 2012 - 02:54 AM, said:

dorodoro, on 29 April 2012 - 02:28 AM, said:

Not exactly a horror, and really more of a slice-of-life disaster story so far, if that's even a thing, is Furuya's 51 Ways To Save My Girlfriend. I really only mention it because, even though I've pretty much just started it, it reminds me a bit of Dragon Head, only a lot less terrifying, but still pretty horrible in a "This could totally happen" sort of way.

Although that series did display characteristics of a survival-horror, it wasn't really scary since it felt more like an earthquake survival guidebook lol Although the mangaka did a pretty good job with the story to make it interesting.

Yeah I didn't really call it a horror XD Like I said, I just mentioned it because it was like a slightly more realistic Dragon Head. Then again, it might have creeped me out because I had read Dragon Head shortly before and was just having flashbacks.

[wnd-hyde]

i love all of junji itou's and shintaro kago's artworks
as for junji itou, his works are all dark and creepy, i got goosebumps sometimes when i read it, i remember tomie, one of his character, she's really creepy o_o
shintaro kago makes it different, his work...hmmm...i can say........psychopathic, horror yet he packed it nicely by drawing it smooth and light expression...

[namassti]

take this good titles :
-uzumaki
-mourio no hoku
-hikabata kitaro