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Statues: Junji Ito Story Collection
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Statues: Junji Ito Story Collection

Genres
Fiction: literary and general non-genre · Crime and / or mystery fiction · Thriller / suspense fiction · Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction
2026
first published in English
Japanese
original language
1
edition in English
328
pages

Headless statues confound the mind with a terrifying question: Are they fine art or carved from the abyss? Art teacher Okabe creates strange, headless statues. One day, he is found murdered, his corpse headless. From that day on, art club member Shimada seems off somehow… Then, in a curious town custom, the dead are placed on a tatami mat and set out on the river. Kanako’s grandmother lives alone in a house near this river. What did she witness at one of these funerals long ago? And then, a decadent disease makes girls suddenly become more beautiful. But then they all die. The only way to survive might be worse than death itself…Ten tales from horror master Junji Ito that will plant the seeds of terror in your heart.

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