Manga like Frankenstein

Ma no Kakera

Also known as Fragments of Horror.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Horror , Supernatural , Thriller

A new collection of delightfully macabre tales from a master of horror manga.

An old wooden mansion that turns on its inhabitants. A dissection class with a most unusual subject. A funeral where the dead are definitely not laid to rest. Ranging from the terrifying to the comedic, from the erotic to the loathsome, these stories showcase Junji Ito’s long-awaited return to the world of horror.



Futon (布団)
Mokuzou no Kai (木造の怪, Wooden Spirit)
Tomio • Akai Hainekku (富夫・赤いハイネック, Tomio: Red Turtleneck)
Yuruyakana Wakare (緩やかな別れ, Gentle Goodbye)
Kaibou-chan (解剖ちゃん, Dissection Girl)
Kuroi Tori (黒い鳥, Blackbird)
Nanakuse Magami (七癖曲美)
Mimikosuri Suru Onna (耳擦りする女, Whispering Woman)

Tags: Tragedy , Gore , Anthology , Body Horror , Ghost , Assassins , Crossdressing , Nudity , Cosmic Horror , Josei

Tsumi to Batsu

Also known as Crime and Punishment.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Slice of Life

In Russia, on the eve of the revolution, a young student named Raskolnikov murders an old pawnbroker over a pocket watch. Although an innocent man is quickly arrested for the crime, Raskolnikovs’s own published essay - suggesting that people who are “extra-ordinary” are above such things as “right” and “wrong” - draws the suspicion of judge Porfiry. Who will catch up to Raskolnikov first? Porfiry … or his own guilty conscience?



Tags: Foreign , Classic Literature , Historical , Philosophy , Shounen

Jigoku de Mesu ga Hikaru

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological

Hiromi is mistreated by her family because of her naturally ugly appearance. Unable to bear her situation, she attempts to commit suicide, but is rescued in the nick of time by a genius doctor, Iwao Toshiaki, and is exposed to human kindness for the first time. However, Iwao is trying to use Hiromi's brain to enter the realm of the divine, which is inaccessible to humans...



Tags: Female Protagonist , Shoujo

Cthulhu no Yobigoe: Lovecraft Kessakushuu

Also known as H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

What links together two bands of worshippers, one deep in the Arctic snows, one hidden in the bayous of Louisiana, is more than their shared practice of blood sacrifice. It is the inhuman phrase they both chant: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn—“In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.” Now these nightmares will disturb the sanity of Francis Thurston, a young man pursuing an investigation into the cult of Cthulhu that leads to the most forsaken spot in the vast Pacific…and to Earth's supreme terror, the risen corpse-city of R'lyeh.



Tags: Cult , Seinen , Cosmic Horror , Classic Literature , Foreign , Ships , Kaiju , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast

Kafka: Classics in Comics

Also known as Kafka.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

A sublimely eerie manga adaptation of classic Kafka stories, with a starkly beautiful illustration style – part of Pushkin's second series of Japanese novellas.

Nine of Franz Kafka's most memorable tales are here given fresh life with dazzling graphic renderings by the brother-and sister manga creators Nishioka Kyodai . With their distinctive, surreal style of illustration, they have reimagined the fantastic, the imperceptible and the bizarre in Kafka's work, creating a hauntingly powerful visual world.

These stories of enigmatic figures and uncanny transformations are stripped to their core, offering profound new understandings.

The Cares of a Family Man
The Metamorphosis
The Bucket Rider
Jackals and Arabs
A Fratricide
The Vulture
A Country Doctor
A Hunger Artist
In the Penal Colony

Tags: Classic Literature , Torture , Tragedy , Foreign , Dystopian , Anthology , Body Horror , Henshin , Family Life

Frankenstein no Otoko

Also known as Her Frankenstein.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Psychological

Dare to read the psycho-horror classic that horror manga master Ito Junji called a “frightening but moving story about an unfortunate individual who, lost in search of his true self, finds his own annihilation instead.”

Little Tetsuo is a wimpy mess. His parents don’t love him. He meets the beautiful Kimiko, an ailing teenage girl obsessed with movies and mayhem in equal amounts. She doesn’t love Tetsuo either, or anyone other than herself. But she needs him. So Tetsuo becomes the man she wants—the monster she wants. He becomes HER FRANKENSTEIN!

Originally published in 1986, Kawashima Norikazu’s HER FRANKENSTEIN marks the bizarre and sadomasochistic finale to a cult era in Japanese horror comics. A few years after it was published, the author burned all of his artwork and abandoned Tokyo, never to be heard from again!



Tags: Dissociative Identities , Ojou-sama , Heterosexual , Shoujo , Rural , Male Protagonist

Mary Godwin

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery

1816 in Genf: After a nightmare Mary Godwin beginn to write the novel Frankenstein. Mary is inspired by Jean, her masked servant with mysterious origins. Since he is in the house many strange things happened. He helps her with his ideas, so she can continue to write. Can Mary write the novel to the end without the help of Jean?

Tags: Historical , Writing , Female Protagonist , Biographical