Shiver: Junji Ito Selected Stories (2017)

The horror collection for readers who care how a short story is built. Junji Ito chose these nine stories himself, eight from across his career and one new, and each older story comes with his own short commentary plus his preparatory notes and sketches. The stories get better as the book goes on, building to "Greased," the most grotesque spectacle here, and "Hanging Balloons," with faces drifting in the sky, has one of Ito's most unsettling premises. "Fashion Model" is the weak link. Expect body horror at full strength; this is not one for the squeamish.