Uzumaki, Volume 2 (2nd Edition) - Softcover

Ito, Junji

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1421513900 ISBN 13: 9781421513904

Publisher: VIZ Media LLC, 2007

Synopsis

Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. But the spirit which haunts it does not have a name or a body, only a shape: uzumaki the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It possessed the father of teenage Kirie's withdrawn boyfriend Shuichi, causing him to remake himself in its image before he died. It grows in ferns, in seashells, in curls of hair, and in the crooked folds of the human brain. Giant snails are sighted near the high school. An eerie glow shines from the abandoned lighthouse. Mosquitoes fly in drowsy curves and feed on blood. As more people are caught in the pattern, over the town of Kurôzu-cho hangs the spiral smoke of cremated corpses; because even in death, there is no escape...

About this title

About the Author:

Junji Ito debuted as a horror manga artist in 1987 with the first story in his successful Tomie series. Uzumaki, drawn from 1998 to 1999, was adapted into a live-action movie, which has been released in America by Viz Films and Tidepoint Pictures. It's influences include the classic manga artists Kazuo Umezu and Hideshi Hino, as well as authors Yasutaka Tsutsui and H.P. Lovecraft.

About this edition

• Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1421513900
• ISBN 13: 9781421513904
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Roman Annette
• Illustrator: Ito Junji