Shiver : selected stories / story & art by Junji Ito ; translation & adaptation, Jocelyn Allen ; touch-up art & lettering, James Dashiell ; "Painter" translation and adaptation, Naomi Kokubo ; "Painter" touch-up art & lettering, Eric Erbes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Itō, Junji, 1963- author, artist.

Contributor:

Allen, Jocelyne, 1974- translator.

Dashiell, James, illustrator, letterer.

Kokubo, Naomi, translator.

Erbes, Eric, letterer.

Series:

Viz signature

Standardized Title:

Comics. Selections. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Graphic novels--Japan--Translations into English.

Graphic novels.

Young adult fiction.

Japan.

Supernatural--Comic books, strips, etc.

Genre:

Comics (Graphic works)

Graphic novels.

Horror comics.

Short stories.

Translations.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

392 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, [2017]

Language Note:

Translated from the Japanese.

Summary:

"This volume includes nine of Junji Ito's best short stories, as selected by the author himself and presented with accompanying notes and commentary. An arm peppered with tiny holes dangles from a sick girl's window... After an idol hangs herself, balloons bearing faces appear in the sky, some even featuring your own face... An amateur film crew hires an extremely individualistic fashion model and faces a real bloody ending... An offering of nine fresh nightmares for the delectation of horror fans"--Amazon.

Contents:

Used record

Shiver

Fashion model

Hanging blimp

Marionette mansion

Painter

The long dream

Honored ancestors

Greased

Fashion model : cursed frame.

Notes:

Manga.

Translation of: Itō junji jisen kessakushū.

Originally published in Japan in 2015 by Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc., Tokyo, through Tohan Corporation, Tokyo.

Manga format; reads from back to front, right to left.

ISBN:

9781421596938

1421596938

OCLC:

1015372270

Publisher Number:

99983600958