The Phantom Mansion

[cyberghostface]

Read from right to left. Warning for some violence/disturbing scenes.

Comments

[q99]

Junji Ito's pretty good at doing living building stories... not his scariest one, but fairly creepy.

[baihu]

I think this one is a bit all over the place. Is it psychological, supernatural, heck scientific with some kind of bacterial infection? I ended up trying to figure out what he's trying to say instead of being creeped out.

Now that story with the woman making love to the mansion. That was pretty straight forward and creepy!

[cyberghostface]

It's not as clear due to the missing pages but the bacteria infection is because (since the kid is absorbing the pain) they're not tending to their wounds because they don't think it's as bad as it actually is. It's not a supernatural event by itself.

[baihu]

Hm, still a bit hard to feel creeped out without a real central antagonistic force I guess. Also I refuse to believe they can't get out of the house.

Front door. Hinges. Screwdriver. Freedom. Or even that row of spears and other metal stuff they can use to get out way before they lost all energy.

[cyberghostface]

They weren't trapped until after the boy was killed.

[icon_uk]

But that doesn't really explain why they're trapped after he's killed.

[cyberghostface]

Because the pain that he was carrying went to them and now they're too weak to move the barriers.

[sindra]

I keep on thinking I've read all of Ito's stuff....then every once in a while, I find one like this that I haven't.

Thank you. =)

[kurenai_tenka]

Hurray, a Junji Ito post! Thanks. :)