10 Most Messed Up Junji Ito Moments

10. Unwanted Sleepover - The Window Next Door

Published as part of The Circus Is Here in The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection, The Window Next Door (sometimes titled The Neighbour’s Window or The Adjacent Window), takes the concept of stranger danger to a whole other terrifying level.

In this short story, the plot sees high school student Hiroshi and his family move into a new home where they hear stories that the elderly woman supposedly occupying the house next door never shows her face in public. However, her figure is reportedly seen in the window at night.

It's not long before Hiroshi is introduced to his new neighbour, though. Late at night, he hears whispering from outside his bedroom window from his neighbour enticing him to come over. As creepy as that is, things only get worse for him when he moves to investigate. Looking out his window he gets a good look at who (or what) his neighbour is: a decaying, bony figure with a large, sinister smile.

Continuing to torment the "dear boy" at night as she tries to get through his window, we never find out what she planned to do if she succeeded; but it was definitely nothing neighbourly.