Fragments of Horror

Written by: Junji Ito

First line: The man I eloped with and currently live with is terrifies of something and he won't come out from under the futon.

Why you should read this book: This is one of the strangest horror anthologies I've ever read, with the scary element of almost every story somehow revolving around some type of sexually creepy woman. "Dissection-chan," about a girl who is obsessed with being dissected and harasses medical students to cut her open, was one of my favorites, but other sexually creepy women feed men raw meat, have inappropriate relationships with historical buildings, and try to remove men's heads.There's also some time travel, some cross dressing, some justice, some injustice, some ghosts, some Lovecraftian terrors, and a decent body count.

Why you shouldn't read this book: If you're looking for any type of conventional slasher tale, you won't find it here; it's not even conventional within its supernatural genre; it's really far out.