Mimi's Tales of Terror

A collection of beautifully illustrated short horror manga stories in black & white by Junji Ito. Centered around Mimi, a girl who seems to be fated to encounter the more horrific aspects of the Japanese supernatural world, the book has a bit of a classic feel to it. A key aspect to the stories is that things aren't necessarily fully explained - which greatly adds to the feeling of mystery and suspense.

The stories definitely have a bit of a Lovecraftian feeling to them, but they mostly avoid the nastier aspects of much modern horror such as r@pe and other forms of violation. This is good, classic horror. In a decimal ranking system I would give it a 9.1.