Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection (2018)
Junji Ito draws Shelley’s novel as horror manga.
The horror is in the bodies — the stitches, the graves, the face — so give the novel to the artist who draws bodies more frighteningly than anyone.
What it keeps and what it changes
Keeps: Shelley’s story of the creature and its maker.
Changes: the medium, to Ito’s black-and-white horror manga. The book also collects six of his Oshikiri stories and a short one about his family’s dog.
Whose story is it?
the creature’s and Victor’s.
How much time does it ask?
408 pages in hardcover, of which the Frankenstein adaptation is one part.
VIZ Media hardcover, 16 October 2018, 408 pages.
Where to find it
Buy the hardcover — Bookshop.org
Other ways to get it: Hardcover — Amazon · Ebook — Kobo · Kindle — Amazon
Borrow it free: Borrow on Libby · Find at your library — WorldCat
More Frankensteins: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Penguin Classics) · Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Oxford World’s Classics) · The Norton Critical Edition, third edition