Deserter: Junji Ito Story Collection

by Ito, Junji

• ISBN13: 9781974719860
• ISBN10: 1974719863
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2021-12-21
• Publisher: VIZ Media LLC

Summary

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

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’re not 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.

Author Biography

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 books Fragments of Horror, Frankenstein, Lovesickness, Shiver, Smashed, Venus in the Blind Spot, Remina and Sensor, 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.

His collection Frankenstein won the 2019 Eisner Award in the "Best Adaptation from Another Medium" category and he received critical acclaim for his long-form manga adaptation of Osamu Dazai’s 1948 novel No Longer Human.