Other items in Uzumaki manga US 1st ed

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With their town devastated by titanic hurricanes, the citizens of the spiral-haunted town of Kurouzucho - including Shuichi, Kirie and her family - find themselves cut off from the outside world. Reporters and rescue teams cross the mountain range into Kurouzu-cho only to find themselves unable to leave. Trapped inside the cursed ruins, the desperate survivors struggle and huddle together, waiting to turn into giant snails or worse. The very laws of nature are changed as the spiral sucks them in. And to fight it. or to escape, the last survivors must go to the heart of the horror to witness what may be their eventual fate...

Junji Ito debuted as a horror artist in 1987 with the first story in his successful Tomie series. Uzumaki was adapted into a live-action movie which has been released in America by VIZ films and Tidepoint Pictures. Ito's influences include manga artists Kazuo Umezu and Hidoshi Hino, and the authors Yasutaka Tsutsui and H.P. Lovecraft.

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