Flesh Colored Horror by Junji Ito super rare horror manga

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Junji Ito's understanding of the mind-boggling dread that takes shape in a viewer's imagination, plus his insight into what words and images can be crafted to keep perennial wheels of dread rolling, is something that I, a fan with a horror-seasoned find utterly amazing. Seeing something he crafts is like watching perfection being sculpted, perfection with the ability to bend the imagination like the wind bends so many reeds. Even in his earlier, more experimental works, you can see a masterpiece being shaped, a reflection that would later be completed in one of the greatest pieces of spine-tingling reading I ever happened across, Uzumaki. Within this collection are six stories that span seven years, all originally appearing in Monthly Magazine Halloween between the years 1988 and 1995.
Taking them from oldest to youngest, covering two in depth to give those unfamiliar with Ito a feeling of them, they are:
Long Hair In The Attic (1988) deals with a girl named Chiemi and the breakup she's finds herself suffering through plus the reprocussions it brings. Mortified by the revelations she's had in the last day, Chiemi decides once and for all that today is the day to do away with the long hair her boyfriend once coveted. Before she can do so, however, something gruesome happens and Chiemi's body is discovered, her head missing (and never recovered). Sometime later, as her sister is lying in her bed, she hears strange noises coming from the attic, noises that she tells herself have to be rats, only the noise being made sounds exactly like Chiemi when she used to grind her teeth at night. But what could it be? O, what could it be?
Approval (1991) is also a good one, dealing with a boy's love for a certain girl and a father that won't allow this to be. It doesn't seem to matter what he does or how often he visits, either. for her father never approves of him. After a time he finds out things that further infuriates him, making him want to seek vengeance, only convoluting the matter more and ultimately costing him in the worst of ways.
Dying Young (1991) is where the first threads of the spiral, of Uzumaki, can be seen manifesting. The story focuses upon a group of three girls, all considered ugly until, one day, one obegins to get pretty and people paying attention. She continues to get even lovelier, too, until she collapsed on the running track and died of a heart attack And this began something of an epidemic, all the pretty girls dying one by one, and rumors began to spread about how to stay alive. Some girls whisper things, rumors of the darkest proportions, stating that the only way to stay alive was to kill a girl your age on the third Friday of every month. Still, these were only rumors, right?
To note, the three pieces I chose to skip are: Beehive (1991), Headless Sculptures (1995) and Flesh-colored Horror (1994), all worthwhile reading and all terrifying in their own right. In fact, if you're a fan or if you are simply intrigued by the concept, then these, along with Uzumaki, are something I would highly recommend. Its horror at its finest.