Zashiki Onna

from manga-sketchbook: one night, mild-mannered college student, hiroshi mori, bumps into a woman visiting his next-door neighbor. a large, creepy woman, she has long hair, wears a coat and carries shopping bags in both hands. he had never seen her before. but then, without warning, the woman starts stalking hiroshi, shifting her attention from his next-door neighbor whom she had been visiting to hiroshi himself. who is she and what is she after? originally published in 1993 – before the term “stalker” was acknowledged in japanese society, this well-written horror manga is about a young man pursued by a mystery woman. serialized for just ten weeks, this short, single-volume manga unusually become a hit bestseller, selling a staggering 400,000 copies. regularly chosen as “the scariest manga ever” in magazine horror specials.