Venus in the Blind Spot

Overview

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This volume includes ten of Junji Ito’s short stories, as selected exclusively from the Shōgakukan publisher catalog and presented and accompanied with a gallery of six color illustrations. Stories: 1: Army of One / Billions Alone (Okuman Bocchi, 億万ぼっち) 2: The Human Chair (Ningen Isu, 人間椅子) A woman enters a furniture store in search of a chair, but the proprietor is all too eager to reveal its past... 3: Venus in the Blind Spot (Mouten no Venus, 盲点のビーナス) 4: The Licking Woman (Name Onna, 舐め女) 5: Umezz Kazuo and Me (Umezu-sensei to Watashi, 楳図先生と私) A oneshot that appeared in Monthly Spirits 2014-11 to celebrate Ito and Kazuo being in an interview together. 6: An Unearthly Love (Kono Yo no Hoka no Koi, この世のほかの恋) 7: How Love Came to Professor Kirida (Miirareta Kirida Kyouju, 魅入られた切田教授) 8: The Enigma of the Amigara Fault (Amigara Dansou no Kai, 阿彌陀羅断層の怪) 9: The Sad Tale of the Principal Post (Daikokubashira Hiwa, 大黒柱悲話) 10: Keepsake (Wasuregatami, 忘れ形見) Pin-up: 1: ''Kirie'' 2: ''Ningen Shikkaku no Onna-tachi'' Gallery: 1: ''Frankenstein in Innsmouth'' 2: ''Ningen Shikkaku'' 3: ''Uzumaki'' 4: ''Ningen Shikkaku''

Staff

• Junji Itou · Writer
• Rampo Edogawa · Writer
• Yuji Oniki · Staff
• Jocelyne Allen · Staff
• Robert Hichens · Writer