Miyu is an eternally youthful, 13-year-old vampire. Her peculiar appearance; golden eyes, pale skin, and hair tied with a ribbon in a strange fashion, are concealed during the day. Miyu is the Guardian (or Watcher), whose duty it is to return the Shinma - god-demons that prey on humans - to the dark. She has the power to call forth fire, which burns Shinma and sends them to the dark. Her only companion, friend, and protector is Larva, a Western Shinma who is bound to serve her. Together, they hunt stray Shinma across Japan. How Miyu became a vampire is unknown, so is how and why she became the Guardian. However, more mysterious is the gift she bestows on the people she feeds from... Adapted from 1985 OVA.
10 brutal horror stories by Ochazukenori, the master of splatter manga! Ranging from morbid humor to slasher to SF horror, this anthology will sure shock you! \"If you don\'t eat your ochazuke... Ochazukenori will come and murder you! But who is the real identity of this killer?\" [Ochazukenori the Thirteenth] \"A special story in 3D! Ochazukenori\'s love of ochazuke leads him to murder a family!\" [Ochazukenori in 3D] \"A group of violent teenage boys amputate 8 fingers of a girl, she rips of their masks and now they need to kill so their barbaric tendecies stay hidden...\" [8 Fingers]
Yukari is a girl who can see the deceased. Yuusaku is a boy who can hear any phenomena that has a voice. Through their encounters with the inhuman, they learn fear, sadness, and compassion; and grow as humans.
A Shoujo version of The Living Corpse that was later adapted into the film \"Dead Girl Walking\". On her yearly health checkup Yuri Ohara receives a terrifying diagnosis: she has zero brainwave activity, no respiratory function, and no pulse. She is dead...but she is still alive...
A collection of seven of Hideshi Hino\'s terrifying and fantastic works. In \"The Blooming Forest\", the first story, the Cherry Blossom Forest is said to be a place that must never be approached. It is said that a beautiful but terrifying demon named Sakurahime lives there and kills people who pass nearby by inviting them into the forest. But Taro, who does not believe in demons, wanders deep into the forest because it is so beautiful and Sakurahime finds him... The fourth story, \"Mermaid in a Manhole\" was later adapted into the horror movie of the same name as part of the \"Guinea Pig\" series, with Hideshi Hino himself directing.
\"Mr. HPL! Have you decided?\" --- Published in Fantasy Literature Journal Vol. 2 special issue: Cthulhu Club (1987).
A one-shot that appeared in issue 4 of Silver Star Club (Atelier Peyotl). A young boy and his older sister cross paths with a strange old lady at an abandoned railway crossing.
This tongue-in-cheek semi-autobiography follows the absurdly gruesome adventures of a lonely boy and his singularly crazed family. His escape from the madness that surrounds him is his collection of pickled animal and human body parts, to which he adds as one family member after another meet with a grotesque and sometimes terrifyingly funny death... (Source: AniList)
One night while star gazing siblings Haruhiko and Fuko encounter strange lights in the sky...the next day they wake up to find themselves in an entirely new and strange world...
The spine-chilling influence of Japanese horror cinema has taken hold in Western audiences with hit films like The Ring that are based on Japanese films adapted from classic manga stories. And the master of horror manga is Umezu Kazuo-known as the \"Stephen King of Japan,\" with several of his stories being adapted to film-and Dark Horse Manga is proud to bring his Scary Book horror anthology to Western readers for the first time. This first volume, Reflections, presents two feature-length tales of terror. In \"Mirror,\" a narcissistic girl\'s reflection begins to take mean-spirited command of her life; and in \"Demon\'s Revenge,\" a sadistic samurai master bent on seeking retribution for his son\'s injuries finds the tables of vengeance turned against him.
One summer Hino is hired by Tairiku Shobo to create a manga about mummies as part of their \"Tairiku Shobo Mystery Series.\" Drawn in by the interesting subject matter he accepts the offer without hesitation, but he soon realizes that he knows nothing about mummies. So before going to bed, he starts to read a reference book that the editor had left. As he delves deeply into the book the atmosphere in the room changes and with a knock at the door, the mystery begins... Published as volume 4 in the Tairiku Shobo Mystery Series
Seventeen year old Aya is the perfect high school student. Good grades, popular and sports prodigy. She is looking forward to summer break as her pen pal has invited her to his family ranch, but one day on the way home from school she hears a voice calling her name from....