100 Ghost Stories to Die For #2

Anji Matono's cover for volume 2 of *100 Ghost Stories to Die For* delivers a quietly unsettling image: a young figure in a grey sweater smiles faintly while a pale, cracked supernatural hand — red-tipped nails and all — claws across the upper half of their face, shattering it like old plaster. The juxtaposition of that calm, almost serene expression against the creeping horror above it is exactly the kind of wrongness that good J-horror does so well. If this 2022 Shogakukan release's first volume left you wanting more of Matono's distinctly eerie sensibility, this cover alone makes a strong case for picking up the next chapter.