PTSD Radio 1

Ogushi is a being carried into modern Japan from a forgotten past. It haunts and tortures people of every kind, and little is known about its curse beyond where it lives: in human hair.

PTSD Radio is a horror manga built from short, self-contained episodes. Each one takes an everyday thing and turns it strange. An unseen hand tugs at a braid. A found box holds nothing but a tangled mass of dark hair. A door opens onto a river of curls slinking away, with an ominous lump at its centre.

Ogushi preys on the unprepared, and the stories read as cryptic and twisted, with a repellent pull that draws the reader on. Episodes often turn out to be more than they first appear. The comparison point is Junji Ito's Uzumaki, which also finds dread in an ordinary object.

The series began as a digital release and is now in print as three double-length omnibus volumes of about 400 pages each, with textured covers. The creator also made Fuan no Tane. This is body-horror manga for readers who want an anthology of unsettling, standalone scares.