Museum of Terror Vol. 3
Museum of Terror Volume 3 - by Junji Ito
A collection of older stories and the third of the museum of terror series. The first two volumes are just Tomie. My favorites have a star (*) before them.
I just love how Mr. Ito puts his stories to panels. The stories are disturbing with a flavorful twist, minus too much gore and obscenity, unlike Shintaro Kago or Suehiro Maruo.

1. Bio House - A secretary comes into her boss’ house to suck up on him. Faking a liking for strange cuisine concocted from vermin and vipers, she get the heart of the boss, until he forces her to drink his own blood.
Factors: blood, fat man, creepy crawlies, monster girls.

2. The Face Burglar - Kimie is a strange girl. She’s also somewhat clingy. Rumor has it that she can steal other people’s faces just by being near them for too long. The school administration finds out that Kimie isn’t even enlisted at all, and nobody knows who she really is. One day, school beauty and bully Yumi thinks up a plan to make her stop..
Factors: Holy shit what the fuck is that

3. Den of the Sleep Demon - A disturbed young writer tells his assistant that he must not fall asleep, for the “him” in the dreamworld found out about the real world, and wants to come out. And come out, literally! His dreamworld counterpart turns him inside out, but his assistant decides to come with him to the other world.
Factors: inside fucking out!!!

4. The Devil’s Logic - Once you hear the devil speak about death, there’s no turning back. Apparently, he will take the form of a human being, and make you end your life, just like that.
Factors: satan

*5. Long Hair In the Attic - Chiemi tried to be a pretty girl, and she tried too hard that her boyfriend left her. All the memories that they had together, was tied to her by her long hair. She and her sister Eri decide to cut it off one day, but when Eri returns to her room after looking for a pair of scissors, Chiemi is already dead, with her head missing. Days have passed, and her father checks the attic for mice, only to see a creature so vile, it just had to be alive..
Factors: attic, holy shit what the fuck is that, hair.

6. Love as Scripted - Playboy meets girl. Girl falls in love. Playboy leaves girl. That’s the story of Takahashi’s life, until one day, Kaori stabs him. She gets the videotape that was rumored to be given by Takahashi to every girl he left..
Factors: meh

7. Sword the Reanimator: Congressman Soga dies, and that means that there will be a political turmoil. They call a reanimator to make the old congressman live for another 100 years. A boy, the congressman’s grandson, is deeply disturbed by the imbalance the reanimator creates, and decides to kill the reanimator, but that means that every person that the reanimator made to live again would die.. including his mother and brother.
Factors: bones.

8. Heart of a Father: The Todo family is very rich. The father was stern, the mother was gentle, and they had three children together. Only that the three children had something in common, they would experience short headaches. Each child commits suicide one at a time, until only the last one is living… and a family friend solves the mystery of the suicides.
Factors: creepy look.

9. Unbearable Maze: Two girls get lost in the woods, and decide to take refuge in a Buddhist temple. There they find out that every follower in that sector had to become human mummies to achieve Nirvana. They escape, only to end up in the endless labyrinth where the followers meditate until they become mummified..
Factors: mummies.

10. The Village of Sirens: 300 babies had gone missing. A man returns home as per request by his mother, only to find the village barren and the church torched. Apparently someone took over the village to summon the most powerful demon out of innocent blood.
Factors: blood, monsters, devils, seeing your mother flying outside the window.

*11. The Bully: A woman and a man meet at the playground, where she dumps him for another man named Nao, whom she used to bully when they were little. They get married, and have a child, Hiroshi. Soon after Hiroshi was born, Nao disappears. Hiroshi is an exact image of Nao, as annoying and as clingy, and Kuriko, the woman, realizes that it was Nao’s revenge. She then carries over her bullying to Hiroshi, whom she calls Nao.
Factors: creepy woman.

*12. A Deserter in the House: Furukawa still believes that the government is after him and that there is still war, thanks to his friend Adera who just wanted him to suffer, after what he’d done to their sister Kimie who died nine years ago. For more than eight years, Furukawa took refuge in the storage room, only to come out when it’s time to eat. Until one day, they go to the storage room, and find him dead, with a suicide note dated eight years ago…
Factors: holy shit it’s a ghost