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Uzumaki

Uzumaki is a horror story - or more accurately a tightly linked series of stories - by Junji Ito, created in the late '90s. It's hugely original - the supernatural force disturbing and gradually wreaking havoc on a small town is the spiral, a pattern that always leads to terrible things wherever it is seen, in a snail's shell or a tornado or the spring of a jack-in-the-box or the staircase of a lighthouse. The series, collected in three books, is packed with memorably disturbing, and disturbingly memorable, images. It's probably the scariest and strangest comic I've ever read, reminding me a little of a less polished and wilder Charles Burns.

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