Title: Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror

Japanese Title: うずまき

Edition: Paperback, Library Binding, Unknown Binding, Comic, Hardcover

Author(s): Itou, Junji

As she walks to the train station one day to meet her boyfriend, Shuuichi Saito, she sees his father staring at a snail shell in an alley. Thinking nothing of it, she mentions the incident to Shuuichi, who says that his father has been acting weird lately. But his father's obsession with spirals soon proves deadly, beginning a chain of horrific and unexplainable events that causes the residents of Kurouzu-cho to spiral into madness.