Venus in the Blind Spot, Vol. 1

Description

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”