Who says horror is only for October? Beat the summer heat with a chill down your spine. Stay cool with these terrifying picks!
Golden Gold
Welcome to Neijima island, home to a girl who hopes to keep her friend from moving away; destination of an author hoping to be inspired for her next book; and, above all, sacred land to a “god of fortune.” But will that god really bring what the people around it want? A bizarre, supernatural new story by the author of Kokkoku!
Fort of Apocalypse
Yoshiaki Maeda has been falsely accused and detained, along with delinquents from all over the Kanto region, in the juvenile correctional facility, Shouran Institute. Yoshiaki is as typical as a boy can get, so when he finds himself living in this violence-ridden prison, he can’t think of anything worse. His cellmates, Iwakura, Yamanoi, and Yoshioka, are a cunning crew and soon Yoshiaki finds himself pulled into a feud going on in the prison. Then suddenly, a prison van crashes into the facility and what shambles out of the wreckage are flesh-eating zombies… And so the curtain is raised on this bone-chilling story of panic and horror!
Happiness
The latest foray into the darkest corridors of adolescent dread—with vampires—from manga master Shuzo Oshimi (The Flowers of Evil).par par Nothing interesting in happening in Makoto Ozaki’s first year of high school. HIs life is a series of quiet humiliations: low-grade bullies, unreliable friends, and the constant frustration of his adolescent lust. But one night, a pale, thin girl knocks him to the ground in an alley and offers him a choice. Now everything is different. Daylight is searingly bright. Food tastes awful. And worse than anything is the terrible, consuming thirst. The tiny shames of his old life have been replaced by two towering horrors: the truth of what will slake his awful craving and high school itself.
Kasane
Kasane’s face is so hideous, you couldn’t bear to look twice at her—and her ugliness has forced her to walk a harsh path in life. But her mother left her something: a tube of lipstick. The power of this lipstick will change everything about her downtrodden life.
Can You Just Die, My Darling?
“I want to kill you.” Taku Kamishiro’s crush on Mika Hanazono had always been one sided, until one fateful day, his feelings turn into murderous impulse instead … You won’t be able to predict what each new page will bring!
Why The Bell Tolls at Dusk
Mitozu is a small town of 6,000 inhabitants nestled deep within the mountains. In this countryside town, a mysterious bell rings every evening at six P.M. without fail. Once the sound of the bell resonates through the town, it is forbidden to go outside until daybreak. However, a boy named Yuto, who has returned to Mitozu from Tokyo after ten years, ends up unknowingly violating this rule. At that moment, a mysterious creature known as a “Maid” suddenly appears in front of him…
