Over the past year, I have read most of the available Junji Ito in translation, and boy, is it a blast. Ito is the master of visual manga horror, and his methods of storytelling are uncanny, waking nightmares that push characters to a terrifying, existential moment of clarity… and this even bleeds through to his autobiographical, shorter piece, simply about owning cats.  

I plan on absolutely continuing to read Ito, but there are plenty of commonalities with the books that I read – No Longer ...