While not everyone enjoys the genre, horror books, with their disturbing descriptions and metaphors for actual atrocities, tend to have a pretty big impact on readers' imaginations. Collider recently showcased a few popular horror novels published after 2006, with a ranking of "the 8 best horror books of the last 20 years" that featured terrifying books like Joe Hill's NOS4A2 published in 2013, 2014's Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer, and The Strain, co-written by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, from 2009.
The publication put Junji Ito's complete manga series, Uzumaki (1998-1999), at the top of the list. According to Collider, the three-volume manga series offers readers a ghastly experience wherein Kurouzu-cho residents are subjected to mental deterioration and bodily transformations thanks to a curse.
The complete Uzumaki collection has a rating of 4.45 out of 5 from 93,245 readers on Goodreads.
Junji Ito Spoke About What Influenced His Career as an Author of Horror Manga in a 2025 Interview
In a 2025 interview promoting his collaboration with the clothing company BlackMilk, Ito explained that he was inspired to be an author and illustrator of horror manga after reading Kazuo Umezu and Shinichi Koga's books "when [he] was a child."
"After that, I continued to draw for fun using only paper and pencil, but when I was in high school, I met a friend who was drawing full-fledged manga using a pen and ink, and I imitated him and started drawing with a pen and ink. However, I could hardly finish it properly," said Into.
He clarified that his manga series, which also includes Shiver (2015) and The Liminal Zone (2022), don't have a "specific source of inspiration."
"If I had to pick one, I would say that the human body inspires me the most. The human body, with its complex mind, is the motif that interests me the most," continued Ito during the 2025 interview.
He also pointed to a moment from Uzumaki as one of his favorite illustrations from all of his projects.
“I like the picture in Uzumaki where the face of a girl named Azami is invaded by a vortex, and the picture in The Human Chair (original story by Ranpo Edogawa) where the contents of a chair are revealed," said Ito.
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