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Junji Ito made his professional manga debut in 1987 and since then has gone on to be recognized as one of the greatest contemporary artists working in the horror genre. His titles include Tomie and Uzumaki, which have been adapted into live-action films; Gyo, which was adapted into an animated film; and his short story collections Fragments of Horror, Shiver and Frankenstein, all of which are available from VIZ Media. Ito’s influences include classic horror manga artists Kazuo Umezz and Hideshi Hino, as well as authors Yasutaka Tsutsui and H.P. Lovecraft.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ VIZ Media LLC
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 19, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1421596938
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1421596938
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1.3 x 8.25 inches
Part of Series ‏ : ‎ Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories
Grade level ‏ : ‎ 10 - 12
Best Sellers Rank: #21,012 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #86 in Horror Manga (Books)
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Customers find this manga collection to be an absolute masterpiece with unique medium-length horror stories that are haunting in all the right ways. The artwork is beyond amazing, and customers consider it a great addition to any Junji Ito collection. They appreciate the through-provoking concepts and writing style, with one customer noting how the narratives are twisted and gripping.

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82 customers mention content, 79 positive, 3 negative82 customers mention "Content"79 positive3 negative

Customers find the book fantastic and worth checking out, with one describing it as an incredible work of literature.

"...These short stories are graphic, gory, and downright "WTF" worthy! A great read and an even better "How'd someone think of that?"..."Read more

"...I'll assume it's a great book but I'm not sure I recommend ordering it from this seller if you're a paranoid person."Read more

"Amazing, Junji Ito is my favorite horror author"Read more

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61 customers mention short stories, 58 positive, 3 negative61 customers mention "Short stories"58 positive3 negative

Customers enjoy the short stories in this collection, describing them as wonderful and unique medium-length horror pieces, with one customer noting their twisted and gripping narratives.

"Not his best, but a great compilation of short stories. Sadly, these stories are also getting the anime treatment in the winter season of 2018...."Read more

"A selection of some of Junji Ito's best short stories! Need I say more? Ok fine, they're all great!..."Read more

"A great set of stories from junji ito himself. Only con I can complain about is that this book contains one of the chapters from the Tomie series...."Read more

"...The cover is nice and thick and the stories are fairly entertaining...."Read more

49 customers mention creepy, 43 positive, 6 negative49 customers mention "Creepy"43 positive6 negative

Customers find the book creepy and haunting in all the right ways, with terrifying imagery that never grows old.

"...is my first from junji ito and I loved all the short stories they were creepy and good my book came intact and I plan on reading more of his work."Read more

"...I love horror and gore, and Ito delivers 100% with his creepy stories and great illustrations!..."Read more

"...Stories are engaging, terrifying, art is superb. There's nothing more to say Shiver is the best Junji-Iito collection to date."Read more

"...The artwork is amazing as always. The stories are creepy and full of body horror. Great read."Read more

29 customers mention artwork, 29 positive, 0 negative29 customers mention "Artwork"29 positive0 negative

Customers praise the artwork in the book, describing it as amazing, with one customer noting its timeless quality and another highlighting its creepy style.

"...of some of Ito's works, Shiver delivers on the creepy factor and great art that Junji Ito is known for."Read more

"Perfect condition, great stories and artwork!"Read more

"...Junji Ito's art is stunning and unmatched. I'll absolutely read and make more art when his work!"Read more

"...The artwork is superb, as to be expected. What a treat it was for me to turn the pages and savor the contents.... Oh joy. Buy this hardcover. A++"Read more

23 customers mention collection, 22 positive, 1 negative23 customers mention "Collection"22 positive1 negative

Customers appreciate this manga collection, noting it's a great addition to any Junji Ito collection, and one customer mentions it's particularly suitable for those new to Ito's work.

"...This is a great collection for both those new to Ito and long term fans of his...."Read more

"...always enjoyed horror manga and Junji Ito has given us another fine collection garanteed to unerve us...."Read more

"A fantastic collection of some of his most well known short stories. Great art as usual and a lengthy book with more to enjoy!"Read more

"...Solid collection."Read more

15 customers mention subject matter, 15 positive, 0 negative15 customers mention "Subject matter"15 positive0 negative

Customers find the book's subject matter engaging, with through-provoking concepts that serve as a good introduction to Junji Ito's work, making it a great starting point for readers.

"...Great start if you’re unfamiliar with the author."Read more

"Great collection of his stories and a good introduction for anyone looking to start reading his work."Read more

"...I love the subject matter as much of it you would never think to encounter"Read more

"...This is truly a great place to start, as it will immediately garner your respect for Ito’s work...."Read more

10 customers mention illustrations, 10 positive, 0 negative10 customers mention "Illustrations"10 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the illustrations in the book, describing them as great and nightmarish, with one customer noting how they draw readers in.

"...and gore, and Ito delivers 100% with his creepy stories and great illustrations!..."Read more

"...I also really love that they included original commentary notes and sketches to show what inspired each story to come to life...."Read more

"...horrors that give nightmares horrors ... the things he writes and draws is amazing and terrifying and beautiful at the same time...."Read more

"...These short stories are graphic, gory, and downright "WTF" worthy! A great read and an even better "How'd someone think of that?"..."Read more

9 customers mention writing style, 9 positive, 0 negative9 customers mention "Writing style"9 positive0 negative

Customers praise the author's writing style, with one customer specifically noting their fantastic horror writing.

"I bought this book because I heard that Junji Ito was a great writer, and while the stories followed a formula and often felt incomplete, I really..."Read more

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"Junji Ito is an amazing illustrator and this manga continues his tradition of providing disturbing, yet strangely beautiful illustrations...."Read more

"this has to be my favorite from junji ito so creative and spooky"Read more

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Randal
Great read
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2025
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This is my favorite Junji Ito read right next to Tomie. This book is basically the shows best stories put into Manga form if you’ve ever seen it. Even watching the show before has read the book, knowing the stories, I still really enjoyed this!!

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Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2025
This is my favorite Junji Ito read right next to Tomie. This book is basically the shows best stories put into Manga form if you’ve ever seen it. Even watching the show before has read the book, knowing the stories, I still really enjoyed this!!

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Ben Long
Deranged, thought-provoking, evocative, and terrifying!
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2020
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A selection of some of Junji Ito's best short stories! Need I say more?

Ok fine, they're all great! True to Ito's style they're full of deranged and through-provoking concepts mixed with evocative and terrifying imagery. Sure the characters are somewhat underdeveloped and thin, but that's easy enough to overlook in favor of all the nightmare-inducing imagery.

It's hard to pick favorites in a collection this good, but here are a few that are really burned into my brain:

"Hanging Blimp" - a rash of suicides that quickly escalates into a full-blown apocalypse of giant floating heads with nooses; as wild in concept as it is hard to explain.

"Marionette Mansion" - a family who have built a house allowing them to be fully controlled like marionette dolls by strings and people in the ceiling; also a creepy demon puppet that causes excruciating havoc in the end.

"The Long Dream" - a frightened hospital patient whose dreams continue to increase in length (though his sleep time remains the same) and whose body begins to transform because of it; a really interesting concept with some shocking images.

There's also one story, called "Greased," that I won't ever read again just because it was so effectively gross. And not like in a gory way or anything, I just can't handle greasy pimple stuff (you weirdo pimple-popping video watchers will love it :P).

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Funsha Jackson
amazing book overall
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2026
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This book gave me the perfect amount of creeps. I have been binge reading Junji Ito books and i have to say this has to be in my top three. Would definitely recommend if you like creepy books like “Tomie” or “Uzumaki” both by Junji Ito.

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Anna guthrie
Beautiful
Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2026
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Great art

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magis123
Horror Master Does It Again
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2023
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So Junji Ito ... my wife is addicted to his writing and manga ... so when he was at SDCC ... I knew I was in trouble.

So we went to his speaking engagement and the man is really brilliant (honestly I had no idea who he was prior to this) ... I felt bad for him because his hands are very badly gnarled because of years of drawing. But no one can take away the horror he inspires with everything he writes and draws.

He creates horrors that give nightmares horrors ... the things he writes and draws is amazing and terrifying and beautiful at the same time. The stories are all enthralling and tell tales that will give you nightmares but you will soon realize that even your nightmares pale in comparison to the nightmares he is writing. It's truly awe inspiring to be honest.

One day we will lose this horror genre master but for now, I recommend everyone buy his books and be both inspired and terrified.

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5.0 out of 5 stars
Horror Master Does It Again

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2023
So Junji Ito ... my wife is addicted to his writing and manga ... so when he was at SDCC ... I knew I was in trouble.

So we went to his speaking engagement and the man is really brilliant (honestly I had no idea who he was prior to this) ... I felt bad for him because his hands are very badly gnarled because of years of drawing. But no one can take away the horror he inspires with everything he writes and draws.

He creates horrors that give nightmares horrors ... the things he writes and draws is amazing and terrifying and beautiful at the same time. The stories are all enthralling and tell tales that will give you nightmares but you will soon realize that even your nightmares pale in comparison to the nightmares he is writing. It's truly awe inspiring to be honest.

One day we will lose this horror genre master but for now, I recommend everyone buy his books and be both inspired and terrified.

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Kathryn G. Owen
Junji Ito is a Master of the Bizarre Macabre
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2022
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I completely intended to read this one slowly, spacing the stories out, but once I started, I just couldn’t put the book down. Junji Ito is a more recent discovery of mine, but I’ve become addicted to his work in recent months.

This is a great selection for those new to Ito. It features nine of his favorite stories, plus one bonus new story. I was already familiar with many of these due to the Junji Ito Collection animated series, but it was still enjoyable reading the originals. The collection even featured two of my favorite segments from the show, “Fashion Model” (about a deranged and frightening looking model) and “The Long Dream” (about a man whose dreams last for years at a time).

My other favorite stories in this collection include the surreal story, “Hanging Blimp” about giant balloons bearing people’s faces attacking their human lookalikes. The bonus story was also super spooky, featuring the same freaky model from “Fashion Model.” The only story I didn’t personally like was “Greased.” It was well done but just a little too gross for me.

This is a great collection for both those new to Ito and long term fans of his. Each story is followed by a note from Ito explaining the origins of the story, so even if you’re familiar with these tales already, Shiver is worth checking out for those interesting bonus author notes.

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S. Craig Zahler (Crime, Western, Sci-Fi Author)
Ito creates uniquely unsettling and uncommonly vivid horror manga.
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2020
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Few horror cartoonists—if any—elicit the shudders that I feel when I read a tale by Junji Ito of Japan. The current widespread availability of his work in the United States shows an increasing interest here, and it’s not hard to fathom why this is so. My favorite stories by this mangaka are his short, standalone tales. His drawings are fairly realistic with simple clean character designs, but when he adds texture or renders a “shock panel,” his art gets significantly darker, more detailed, and quite vivid.
The Ito collection entitled Shiver is my favorite of what I’ve read so far, though Fragments of Horror has some gems in it as well as well. In the former, Ito contrives a series of interesting weird fiction scenarios that grow more unsettling as the stories progress, and his shock panels leap off of the page and are truly unsettling. These are not “fun” images of zombies munching on a victim or some vampire’s sanguinary sucking, but genuinely disturbing nightmares that put a bad smell in the air that hangs between the tip of your nose and the open book.
I have read (and watched and written and filmed) a lot of repellant stuff, but the acne-centric story ‘Greased’ is a truly repulsive wonder, as are the revelations in the story “Shiver.” In addition to these and other repugnant morsels, nonsensical but engrossing nightmares that seem stolen straight from Ito’s id are explored in ‘Hanging Blimps,’ and the premise of ‘Marionette Mansion’ is a very bizarre original about a family that chooses to give control of their limbs over to unseen controllers in the crawlspace above. Clever premises, engaging mysteries, malodorous shock panels, and nightmare wanderings combine in the uniquely unsettling and uncommonly vivid work of Junji Ito, which I highly recommend to horror fans.

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Rita Bonita
Gorgeously Grotesque
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 10, 2021
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For anyone who may be familiar with Ito’s previous work, you will not be surprised to hear that this is yet another amazingly horrific stories.
The mundane panels make it seem cam and safe, until one quick page flip reveals a terrifyingly detailed work of art.
As with any of Ito’s work, this is a must read for any horror and/or manga fans!

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 10, 2021
For anyone who may be familiar with Ito’s previous work, you will not be surprised to hear that this is yet another amazingly horrific stories.
The mundane panels make it seem cam and safe, until one quick page flip reveals a terrifyingly detailed work of art.
As with any of Ito’s work, this is a must read for any horror and/or manga fans!

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Excelente !
Reviewed in Mexico on February 24, 2025
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Reviewed in Italy on October 14, 2018
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La copertina rigida è bellissima. Il libro è ben rilegato e ogni storia è più bella dell’altra. Junji Ito è un grande artista e che riesce a creare un’angoscia senza precedenti! Se siete fan di Ito è da avere!
Il pacco è arrivato puntuale, perfetto e senza danni.

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Qiao
Recommend
Reviewed in the Netherlands on December 2, 2025
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Good quality of paper. Nice art

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Amazing manga
Reviewed in India on November 14, 2023
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This book arrived in almost perfect condition and was amazing to read

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Amazing manga

Reviewed in India on November 14, 2023
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