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!

From Blast Books: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.

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 2Hino 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 2Hino Horror Volume 9: Ghost School (Ghost School (HINO Hideshi))Hino Horror Volume 10: Death's ReflectionHino Horror Volume 11: Gallery of Horrors (Kyoufu Gallery)Hino Horror Volume 12: Mystique Mandala of Hell (Kaiki! Jigoku Mandara)Hino Horror Volume 13: Zipangu NightHino Horror Volume 14: Skin and Bone

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.

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 2Hino 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 2Hino Horror Volume 9: Ghost School (Ghost School (HINO Hideshi))Hino Horror Volume 10: Death's ReflectionHino Horror Volume 11: Gallery of Horrors (Kyoufu Gallery)Hino Horror Volume 12: Mystique Mandala of Hell (Kaiki! Jigoku Mandara)Hino Horror Volume 13: Zipangu NightHino Horror Volume 14: Skin and Bone

An anthology of horror one-shots by various artists.

Long time ago, there was a place called swamp of slumber, used by the people to throw animal corpses. Near the swamp lived a farmer called Zoroku; he wasn´t very smart. One day he got a rare disease. There are at least three collections of Hino's stories that were published under the title "Zoroku's Strange Disease" over the years, all of them containing a different mix of stories to accompany the title story. This translation is based on the 1976 edition by Hibari Comics and includes the stories "Underwater", "The Newborn Rat" and "The 1000 Pound Demon" in addition to "Zoroku's Strange Disease", obviously. "Zoroku's Strange Disease" has been previously published in English in a collection called "Lullabies from Hell" (Dark Horse Comics, 2006) but I am fairly sure the other stories haven't been translated before.

Beware the red snake! Told from the perspective of a young boy, The Red Snake is a story of the above boy, the house he inhabits, and the forest around his house that stretches on and on. The characters in the story are all mad: his grandfather, who sports a massive growth on his jaw; his grandmother, who believes she is a chicken; his father, who is vicious to the chickens he raises (except for his mother, to whom he provides eggs that so that she can claim she laid them herself); and his sister, whose affection for insects borders on the erotic. The story evolves into a classic nightmare.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 2Hino 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 2Hino Horror Volume 9: Ghost School (Ghost School (HINO Hideshi))Hino Horror Volume 10: Death's ReflectionHino Horror Volume 11: Gallery of Horrors (Kyoufu Gallery)Hino Horror Volume 12: Mystique Mandala of Hell (Kaiki! Jigoku Mandara)Hino Horror Volume 13: Zipangu NightHino Horror Volume 14: Skin and Bone

From Amazon.com: A volume of four terrifyingly witty novellas. Skin and Bone: Poor Taichi is bullied incessantly at school because of her weight problem, but she undertakes a diet from hell, which leaves her nothing more than skin and bone. The Red Satchel: Haruna's deathly appearance shocks her friends when she returns to school. She disappears again, leaving only her red school satchel and its gruesome contents. Two Sisters: Young, beautiful Ms. Numata is a popluar teacher, but her outer appearance hides a ghastly truth she has kept secret since birth. Caterpillar: No one can understand Mayuko's obsession with caterpillars, but everyone at school hates her for it. She is bullied relentlessly, but knows that her destiny lies in a different place.