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Manga for Horror Fans

From unnatural hypnotic patterns to grimdark worlds, below is a selection of horror manga to make you scared of the dark and the unknown. Read them, if you dare!

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  • Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. The town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in everything from seashells and…
    Graphic Novel, 2013San Francisco, CA : Viz Media, [2013] — FIC ITO
  • His name is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a feared warrior spoken of only in whispers. Bearer of a gigantic sword, an iron hand, and the scars of countless battles and tortures, his flesh is also indelibly marked with The Brand, an unholy symbol that…
    Graphic Novel, 2019Milwaukie OR : Dark Horse Manga, February 2019. — FIC MIURA
  • Tokyo teens Kei and Masaru are struck dead by a subway train but awaken in a room with an ominous black orb that gives them weapons, suits . . . and orders. Fighting and endless stream of bizarre alien monstrosities in a deadly game, will they win…
    Graphic Novel, 2018Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Manga, 2018. — FIC OKU
  • "Here at last they will discover the hideous secret of all life on Earth ... but can they escape these uttermost vaults at the bottom of the world, and keep sanity enough to warn mankind ...? Here at last they will discover the hideous secret of all…
    Graphic Novel, 2019Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Manga, 2019. — FIC TANABE
  • Carried into modern Japan from a forgotten past, the being known as Ogushi haunts and tortures humans of all kinds. Little is know about Ogushi's curse, except that it resides in an unexpected place: human hair. An unseen hand tugs at your braid.…
    Graphic Novel, 2022New York : Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC, [2022] — FIC NAKAYAM
  • In a future version of Earth, there is a city grown so chaotically massive that its inhabitants no longer recall what "land" is. Within this megastructure the silent, stoic Kyrii is on a mission to find the genetic mutation that once allowed humans…
    Graphic Novel, 2016New York : Vertical Comics, 2016. — FIC NIHEI
  • Ordinary middle school student Seiichi Osabe receives love and care from his mother Seiko. Until one summer an incident changes the family dynamic forever. This series of thriller comics centers on the theme of a toxic parent and a tale of a…
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York : Vertical Comics, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC, [2020] — FIC OSHIMI
  • A plague of alien parasites has invaded Earth, taken over human hosts and begun feasting on humanity. Most of the hosts are oblivious to their captors, but high schooler Shinichi is fighting to control his own body against an alien parasite and…
    Graphic Novel, 2013New York : Kodansha Comics, 2013. — FIC IWAAKI
  • Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way -- except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two…
    Graphic Novel, 2015San Francisco, CA : VIZ Media, 2015. — FIC ISHIDA
  • The zombie apocalypse has never been more surreal! A mentally unhinged manga artist witnesses the beginning of a zombie outbreak in Tokyo, and he's certain of only two things: he's destined to be the city's hero, and he possesses something very rare…
    Book, 2016Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Manga, a division of Dark Horse Comics, Inc., 2016. — FIC HANAZAW
  • The Walking Cat

    a Cat's-eye View of the Zombie Apocalypse

    Kitaoka, Tomo,
    When Jin, a young man trying to survive the chaos, rescues a cat from certain death, the unlikely duo sets off on a quest to find a mysterious island where Jin's wife may be alive. Witness the zombie apocalypse through the eyes of a fearless feline…
    Graphic Novel, 2021Santa Barbara, CA : Seven Seas Entertainment, [2021] — FIC KITAOKA