Uzumaki #2

Junji Ito's unsettling vision of spiral-obsessed horror continues in this second volume of Uzumaki, and the cover — penciled and inked by Ito himself, with Izumi Evers — sets the tone perfectly: a young woman's calm, wide-eyed face peers out from a background of hair and foliage that seems to twist and curl with quiet menace. That tension between the ordinary and the deeply wrong is exactly what makes Ito's work so compelling. Published in 2002 by Viz, this graphic novel is a striking entry in one of horror manga's most hypnotic series.