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I had nightmares for a week after reading this series.

What is this series? It looks awesome.

It is from a series called GYO, by Junji Ito, one of the all-time great masters of horror comics art. It’s a manga series, it’s been collected into English editions, only a couple books so it’s not hard to get the whole story.

The thing is outlandish and surreal. I don’t want to spoil it, but it is gripping as hell and nightmarish in the BEST possible way.

GAIL SIMONE READ GYO

Dude, I am a HARDCORE Junji Ito fan. I think he reinvented horror comics. I love everything he’s ever done…last time I was in Japan, the only manga I couldn’t bear to not buy were Japanese editions of his work.

Like everyone, I love Uzumaki, I think it’s brilliant.

But I think his most remarkable achievement is Tomie. I’ve said this a lot, but I think he invented the first genuine new horror archetype since Michael Myers (the unkillable serial killer), in Tomie. I think he created the first genuinely effective and terrifying succubus, an archetype that has never achieved any kind of massive significance in fantasy fiction. You see Dracula, and you know that is the VAMPIRE archetype. The Werewolf is the CHANGELING, etc.

But there’s not a succubus that has that kind of iconic power. Until Tomie.

If the movie adaptations of her stories were better, she would be a worldwide sensation, and THE iconic succubus archetype that could spawn a hundred imitators.