Stitches by Hirokatsu Kihara
- horror
- junji ito
- hirokatsu kihara
- short stories
- 3 stars
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Title: Stitches
Author: Hirokatsu Kihara (art by Junji Ito)
Publisher: VIZ Media 2024
Genre: Horror Short Stories
Pages: 112
Rating: 3/5 stars
Reading Challenges:
Where I Got It: Library
*A tumor shaped like a man’s face slowly moves across a woman’s body. The sea shoots glowing balls into the sky, much to the distress of beachgoers. And a girl dressed up for a holiday has no eyes, no nose, nothing—her face is a total blank.
Hirokatsu Kihara pens true stories of unsolved mysteries, stitched together with page after page of Junji Ito’s original illustrations in this collection of nine eerie tales and a bonus manga story.*
We get a short collection of horror stories illustrated by Junji Ito.
Face - Creepy creepy body horror that I love!
Library - Cute little ghost story.
From the Sea - Lacked the horror factor that I wanted.
Festival of the Dead - Low on horror, but a lovely take on ghosts.
The Play - Anything with marionettes is creepy to me.
Folk Dance - Meh.
The Kimono - Creepy kid ghosts are always great.
Snow Day - Not enough horror.
Lips - Weird and lacking a point.
Bonus Manga: Summer Graduation Trip - Actually my favorite story in the collection. This manga story was full on creepy and lovely.
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