I think I deserve this...

[pseudogeek]

Despite my frontal lobe's adamant protest, I have spent the entire after-noon reading horror manga! Now I'm not sure if I can sleep tonight.

The manga in question were mostly by Junji Ito, though there were few more even more trippy ones by others. If I say "but not even my worse nightmares have that!" it would be tempting fate (plus my nightmare of sealed in a room full of spiders was much more scary than getting chased by well-meaning vampire bats, thank you very much), but let's say that some of them use impossibly subconscious and uncommon logics.
Those ones were horrific not by being scary by itself, but by being so utterly alien that it inspires fear. They reached for the inner-most atavistic xenophobia for improbabilities and shoved it into the visual field. Like, when people think about turning manga panels 3D, how many would do it that way? If you are interested, this one is Abstraction by Kago Shintaro. It is very NOT safe for work. His works are often classified as guro (from English "gore", guro is Japanese for the genre that is gory and grotesque, often with impossibly gross body mutilation and/or transformation), so proceed at your own risk.

You can read Abstraction here, translated in English and all (not mine).

Now, for the Junji Ito ones... they are licensed, but few people still have them in their abandoned blogs. I don't want my memories of these manga resurface, I just buried them, so I'm not going to put any link. Let's just say that the earlier ones are not that scary, but later ones... Especially Amigara Fault. Ahhhhhhhhhhh.

And suddenly all the SCP and creepypasta all look so sane and clean.

Edit: And apparently Kago Shintaro is popular in France. Should I be surprised?

Edit 2: Oh, and Kago's Multiplication is also hosted on Same Hat! Fine meta-horror there.

Comments

[moon_blitz]

The horror genre...*shudders* I can certainly understand your reaction to the stuff - I'm not a huge horror fan myself (of either gore or psychological stuff), and I do try to avoid it in most cases. Oddly enough, I can handle some of the "lighter" horror manga; things like "Deadman's Wonderland" and "The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service". And I managed to get through the "Another" anime, although it took some serious willpower and a few long nights. Perhaps it's because the images are in black and white and thus I'm not grossed out by the sight of lots of blood?

So...poke around and find what your limits are and stick to that? I've learned that I can't deal with rivers of blood in movies/TV or detailed descriptions of killings/maiming/etc. in literature. Or just avoid the stuff altogether.

[pseudogeek]

Well... the ones I'm afraid of are not horrific because of the blood and violence, but because of the grotesque. Eyes where they should not be, forcefully fused bodies, tumors, rapid deformations and stuff. And alien/nightmare logic as in Abstraction or Amigara.

[moon_blitz]

Eeee, I don't think I could deal with that either. The memory of that stuff should fade pretty soon though, so you'll just have to wait it out. Or watch/read something light and/or cute to speed the process along.