Brain Damage (Hardcover)

From the brilliant and twisted mind of manga artist Shintaro Kago, comes a new collection of short stories rife with skin-crawling suspense, visceral body horror, and pitch-dark humor!

Following his acclaimed English debut with Dementia 21, Shintaro Kago returns at the height of his powers with Brain Damage. Readers who were delighted and disgusted by his penchant for the surreal will find that Kago has dialed up the gore and absurdity to dizzying new heights. This collection features his trademark emphatic, kinetic art style across four tantalizingly macabre tales.

In Brain Damage, the hilarious and the gruesome collide:

• “Labyrinth Quartet”: Four identical women trapped in an eerie building must solve a mystery while being hunted by a knife-wielding stalker.
• “Curse Room”: A plucky health aide is tasked with keeping zombies peaceful to avoid a brain-eating rampage.
• “Family Portrait”: People are disappearing without a trace, and the key lies with a senile, perverted old man.
• “Blood Harvest”: Gruesomely mangled bodies are found inside pristine cars—suggesting something sinister lurks within the glass and steel.

Featuring stunning black-and-white illustrations throughout, Brain Damage is a must-have for fans of Junji Ito, H.P. Lovecraft, and experimental horror. Enter the world of the "Unfashionable Master of Body Horror" and see what lurks within!