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Junji Itō: Uzumaki (Hardcover, 2013, VIZ Media) 5 stars

Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi …

Review of 'Uzumaki' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

An absolute gem of cosmic horror. Junji Ito manages spectacularily to hold the mood throughout the entire book. It starts weird and gets just weirder, presenting the reader with unsettling things one after another, without ever feeling stale or somehow forced. I really enjoyed the ending.

For any fans of H.P. Lovecraft, and I kinda found something similar here as in Strugatsky brothers' Roadside Picnic, which I completed just recently, in that regular people get caught in something inexplicable and alien, looking for answers and closure.