![]() ![]() Honestly, this was needed and allowed the tension and fear to naturally ramp up again as readers come to the ending of the book. They become more mysterious in nature, the tension no longer quite as palpable as before. ![]() Towards the middle of the book the stories tone down just a little bit. The pacing felt fairly fast, the tension increased very steadily as the volume went on, and if I’m honest, one in particular I found downright terrifying. The first few stories I found quite intense. The pacing of this volume as a whole also worked quite well. There wasn’t a single story that felt weaker than rest either in storytelling or in art. People don’t always live happily ever after, and evil is sometimes left to wreak more havoc upon the unsuspecting. These aren’t the sort of scary stories that wrap up nicely. ![]() Junji Ito is the only person who can instill an unnatural fear of small holes and cooking oil within a person. All vary in theme and tone, but all are frightening. Shiver is a hardcover manga filled with almost four hundred pages worth of short horror stories by Junji Ito. Releasing tomorrow, December 19, 2017, Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories is certainly no exception to the rule. Never have I come across a Juji Ito story that hasn’t managed to make me feel something. Junji Ito’s works are one exception to that rule. Yet few manage to evoke that raw fear and discomfort that so many strive for. (All reviews are our own, honest opinions.) ![]()
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