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Ito, Junji,

Uzumaki : spiral into horror / Junji Ito ; translation & English adaptation, Yuji Oniki. - Deluxe edition. - San Francisco, California : Viz Media, 2013. - 634 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm.

Translation of: Uzumaki. Previously issued in three parts.

Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father and the voice from the cochlea in our inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return!

Rated T+ for older teen.


Translated from the Japanese.

ISBN: 9781421561325 (hbk.) 1421561328 (hbk.)

Standard No.: (YBP)10690509

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB379737 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016489532 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Comic books, strips, etc--Japan--Translations into English.
Death.
Spirals.
Graphic novels.
Spirals--Comic books, strips, etc.
Death--Comic books, strips, etc.
Comic books, strips, etc.--Japan--Translations into English.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Japan.
Japan.
Japan--Comic books, strips, etc.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Graphic novels
Horror comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels.
Horror comic books, strips, etc.
Graphic novels.
Comic strips--Translations. --Japan--1998-1999
Graphic novels--U.S.A--2013.
Horror comics--Translations. --Japan--1998-1999
Horror comic books, strips, etc
Graphic novels

LC Class. No.: PN6790.J33 / I8713 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 741.5