The spine-chilling influence of Japanese horror cinema has taken hold of Western audiences, with many of these terrifying films being adapted form classic manga stories. The acknowledged grandmaster of horror manga is Kazuo Umezu—knows as the “Stephen King of manga,” with several of his stories being adapted to film—and Dark horse manga is proud to bring his Scary Book horror anthology to Western readers for the first time. Find out what Japanese readers have known for years—you haven’t been scared until you’ve been scared by Kazuo Umezu!