10 Essential Horror Comics Fans Must Read

Before his later work would shock and chill the world, the internet first learned of the horror genius known as Junji Ito through this little short story: The Enigma Of Amigara Fault.

Keeping it short for this entry, since it is a short story, thus the twists come hard and fast, we'll get right to the point: the story is absolutely creepy. And yeah, big shock for the guy who managed to make a house cat terrifying. But even by those standards, Amigara Fault just has this eerie vibe to it. From Ito's legendarily eerie artwork, to his masterful use of page layout to make every turn of the page feel like a nail biting experience, we wouldn't get another showcase of his abilities this brilliant until a later entry on this list.

The basic gist of the story is that a mountain splits open in Amigara, Japan, leaving - of course - a huge fault.

That also has a bunch of people shaped holes in them.

Very specifically people shaped holes.