Comics Underground Japan presents the wild, subversive world of Japan’s most accomplished underground comics artists. Some of the dozen artists included in this anthology will be familiar to followers of manga; others make their American debut in these pages. The richly imaginative stories in this volume show a great range of graphic style, from painstakingly detailed craftsmanship to exuberant, maniacal renderings. At the heart of each work in this anthology is a unique personal vision and a fierce artistic compulsion–these manga artists are the misfits of the art form, and they are its visionaries.

Included stories are:
1. "Hell's Angel" by Yoshikaze Ebisu
2. "It's All Right if You Don't Understand" by Yoshikaze Ebisu
3. "Steel Pipe Melancholia" by Masakazu Toma
4. "Future Sperm Brazil" by Takashi Nemoto
5. "A Love Like Lemons" by Carol Shimoda
6. "Selfish Carol's Summer Vacation" by Carol Shimoda
7. "Mercy Flesh (Jiniku)" by Kazuichi Hanawa
8. "Don Quixote #1 & #2" by Yasuji Tanioka
9. "Planet of the Jap" by Suehiro Maruo
10. "Mary’s Asshole" by Hanako Yamada
11. "Volvox" by Pan Migawa
12. "Bigger and Better" by Muddy Wehara
13. "Laughing Ball" by Hideshi Hino
14. "Cat Noodle Soup" by Hajime Yamano & Nekojiro

A collection of seven of Hino's finest short graphic novels; excruciatingly funny and disturbingly gruesome.

The Hino Horror series:
Hino Horror Volume 1: The Red Snake (赤い蛇 Akai Hebi)
Hino Horror Volume 2: The Bug Boy (毒虫小僧 Dokumushi Kozou)
Hino Horror Volume 3: Oninbo and the Bugs from Hell (地獄虫を食う! 鬼んぼ Jigoku Mushi Woku! Oninbo)
Hino Horror Volume 4: Oninbo and the Bugs from Hell 2
Hino Horror Volume 5: The Living Corpse (死肉の男 Shiniku no Otoko)
Hino Horror Volume 6: Black Cat (黒猫の眼が闇に Kuroneko no Me ga Yami ni)
Hino Horror Volume 7: The Collection (M Collection)
Hino Horror Volume 8: The Collection 2
Hino Horror Volume 9: Ghost School (Ghost School (HINO Hideshi))
Hino Horror Volume 10: Death's Reflection
Hino Horror Volume 11: Gallery of Horrors (Kyoufu Gallery)
Hino Horror Volume 12: Mystique Mandala of Hell (Kaiki! Jigoku Mandara)
Hino Horror Volume 13: Zipangu Night
Hino Horror Volume 14: Skin and Bone

Mandala is the daughter of the King of Hell. Given two all-seeing crystal eyes, she is sent up into the world to save her dying clan from the invading western demons. However, she soon loses one of the crystals, and centuries later, her search is about to come to cataclysmic end.

The Hino Horror series:
Hino Horror Volume 1: The Red Snake (赤い蛇 Akai Hebi)
Hino Horror Volume 2: The Bug Boy (毒虫小僧 Dokumushi Kozou)
Hino Horror Volume 3: Oninbo and the Bugs from Hell (地獄虫を食う! 鬼んぼ Jigoku Mushi Woku! Oninbo)
Hino Horror Volume 4: Oninbo and the Bugs from Hell 2
Hino Horror Volume 5: The Living Corpse (死肉の男 Shiniku no Otoko)
Hino Horror Volume 6: Black Cat (黒猫の眼が闇に Kuroneko no Me ga Yami ni)
Hino Horror Volume 7: The Collection (M Collection)
Hino Horror Volume 8: The Collection 2
Hino Horror Volume 9: Ghost School (Ghost School (HINO Hideshi))
Hino Horror Volume 10: Death's Reflection
Hino Horror Volume 11: Gallery of Horrors (Kyoufu Gallery)
Hino Horror Volume 12: Mystique Mandala of Hell (Kaiki! Jigoku Mandara)
Hino Horror Volume 13: Zipangu Night
Hino Horror Volume 14: Skin and Bone

Set in Ibaraki, our protagonist is oppressed at home by his in-law family, and constantly bullied at school by his former best friends. His only friend is his pet dog, Iggy, who was rescued just before he was about to be euthanized.

Can "unwanted pets" like them survive the ZQN panic...!?

Welcome to one of the most disturbing minds in Japanese manga! Hideshi Hino has long been considered a master of the horror manga genre since his coming out in the late seventies. And the four stories in Lullabies from Hell will show you how demented the man can be.

The self-titled first chapter introduces you to the author himself, a horror quasi-biography of sorts. The second story tells of Hino's having willed his pregnant wife into birthing a horrible, planet-devastating reptile baby that eats puppies and children! And you can imagine how the stories progress from there.

Take a look inside the mind of a madman! Published in the popular, unretouched and unflopped manga format, Lullabies from Hell might make sleeping a bit of a challenge!

This graphic novel by one of Japan's most accomplished artists tells the unsettling saga of twin sisters born on a dark and stormy night in Tokyo: one normal, and one a demon baby with a taste for blood--a Hell Baby. Tossed into a garbage dump in a plastic bag, Hell Baby dies, but is brought back to life by an unworldly bolt of lightning. Hell Baby develops hard-earned hunting techniques to survive life among the wild animals who roam the dump. After struggling along for seven years, she seeks revenge for her fate and returns to the city, where she applies her hunting skills for survival--this time against the good citizens of Tokyo.

Replete with Hino's trademark black humor and unflinching imagery, Hell Baby is a classic horror tour de force.

A beautiful, peaceful city is sent into a crisis when zombies suddenly emerge. The government is powerless to help and the citizens are left to fight for themselves. In another city, a man hurries to travel thousands of miles to save his family. This is where our story begins.

From Yen Press:

It’s Noh-A’s first day at Amityville High School, and her reception is chilly to say the least. Brutal might be a better description! Decapitated but not dead (or is she??), Noh-A quickly realizes that nothing is as it appears at Amityville High where paranormal creatures battle for supremacy. Caught in the crossfire, Noh-A may have to rely on the unlikely (and possibly unreliable) aid of the most sinister student at Amityville… the deadly Jack Frost!

A psychic who doesn't believe in ghosts met a girl who can see ghosts, what will happen?

A collection of horror stories by Sachiko Uguisu/Hiyodori. The first 3 chapters are about the Freudstein twins, while the others are stand-alones.

A group of teenage boys travels to an island where it is rumoured that only women live. They are all eager to lose their virginity but will the legends surrounding the island be true or something more sinister is happening there?

People start getting abducted, and find themselves in an abandoned school building with monsters when they wake up. Out of the 13 people abducted, who will be able to make it out alive? What is the exact reason behind these abductions?

Tsurara Takahashi is a middle school student who belongs to the Shinzen tennis club. However, she carries a great misfortune that she cannot confess to her friends: she met the mysterious Mahou Shoujo Site and was given a stick in the shape of an electric drill.

Viewers participate in a heavily advertised new quiz show where the winner earns one hundred million yen. But waiting there is a cruel game of death and competition. What will be the fate of the ten finalists? And just what is the true purpose of the quiz?

Everyone thought that the murder mystery had been solved. Everyone except for her, a seemingly normal girl who saw the true identity of the killer in a dream. With the advice of a mysterious and breathtaking man, she filed a report with the police. Now, the killer is coming after her.

Seven stories adapted from the horror of Hokazono Masaya.

This is a continuation of it's prequel, Kuro Ihon.

A boy wanders into a mysterious forest one night.

Aoi and Haru and secretly dating. However, Aoi notices that Haru has been worried about something, and the next day, he sees her fall from the roof of the school. He then discovers that she put a chart of relationships into his locker, and marked five of them as "clowns" who are trying to kill her.

A young man named Furuya contemplates the accidental death of his girlfriend, Sara.