Junji Ito story collection 1: Deserter

Junji Ito story collection 1: Deserter – A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A pair of girls look alike, but they aren’t twins. And a boy’s nightmare threatens to spill out into the real world. This hauntingly strange story collection showcases a dozen of Junji Ito’s earliest works from when he burst onto the horror scene, sowing fresh seeds of terror.

An ever-increasing malice. A mind-numbing terror. The seeds of horror are sown in this collection of Junji Ito’s earliest works. A good collection of Ito’s early stories.

The art is a little rougher than his most well known books like Uzumaki or Gyo. But the stories are entertaining, and more spooky than grotesque.