TY - BOOK AU - Ito,Junji AU - Oniki,Yuji TI - Uzumaki: spiral into horror SN - 9781421561325 (hbk.) AV - PN6790.J33 I8713 2013 U1 - 741.5 23 PY - 2013/// CY - San Francisco, California PB - Viz Media KW - Comic books, strips, etc KW - Japan KW - Translations into English KW - Death KW - fast KW - Spirals KW - Graphic novels KW - Horror comic books, strips, etc KW - lcgft KW - Comic strips KW - 1998-1999 KW - Translations KW - aat KW - U.S.A KW - 2013 KW - Horror comics N1 - Translation of: Uzumaki; Previously issued in three parts; Rated T+ for older teen N2 - 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 According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the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! ER -