Five Manga and Manhwa Reads for the Spooky Season

Welcome to Spooky Month! Every year, horror junkies and brave souls like you dive into the pits of terror with glee. You consume countless movies and video games, but that's never enough. TOKYOPOP can satisfy your hunger for brains spooks! Manga and manhwa are a treasure trove of scary stories to read in the dark. Take a look to see what we have to offer! 

There, Beneath the Water

Cover image for There, Beneath the Water, Volume 1, isbn: 9781427887863

Everyone in town knows the story of the mermaid.


She lives in the lake, alone.


The townsfolk say she eats pets. They say she lures people into the water. They say she'll turn you into a monster.


But the town is peaceful. The town is happy. The water is sweet. No one ever leaves.


And as the lives of the town's girls ebb and flow around the girl called "Chitose," the mysteries of the mermaid in the lake drift to the surface, revealing something older, lonelier, and far stranger waiting just beneath the water...


Content Warnings: Mature themes, references to animal death

Ghoul Work, Kurose

Cover image for Ghoul Work, Kurose, Volume 1, isbn: 9781427888211

Yuuma Kurose can see things he shouldn't.


Since childhood, Yuuma has been haunted by the same recurring nightmare. After moving to his granny’s hometown, he finds himself returning to the very place from his dreams—a place that holds memories he can no longer recall.


There, he encounters Kaito, a young man surrounded by terrifying spirits. For reasons Yuuma can’t understand, Kaito looks at him with unwavering devotion and vows, “I swear I’ll protect you... No matter what.”


But when the spirits suddenly abandon Kaito and descend upon Yuuma instead, fragments of a forgotten past begin to surface. As the two are drawn together once more, the long-still currents of fate begin to flow again...


Content Warnings: Mature themes, disturbing imagery, language, sexual content

Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness - The Beginning

Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness - The Beginning Book Cover

Before the events of the 2021 animated series, Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness, Leon Kennedy is called in to investigate alongside Pittsburgh PD when a bomb kills a guard at the Carnegie Museum of Art. But when that guard rises from the autopsy table and begins a chain reaction of undead corpses hunting for blood, Leon is once again caught in a complex web of intrigue. A terrorist cult, a mysterious virus, and the corpses of the dead returning to life to assault the living…


Nominated for Best Graphic Novel in the Scribe Awards, given out by the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers!

Dead Company

Cover image for Dead Company, Volume 1, isbn: 9781427874986

A death game where players are forced to kill one another until there's only one person left standing!

 

This is the story of Ryosuke Miyauchi, a young man who survived a real-life battle royale game three years ago, and who has been struggling to live a normal life since then. One day, Ryosuke was scouted by the enormously popular game developer EDC, who asked him, "Why don't you use your special experience to make a game?"

Kyo Aizawa Doesn't Laugh

Cover image for Kyo Aizawa Doesn't Laugh, Volume 1, isbn: 9781427888365

Hinano Shiina harbors a secret...

She’s been able to see ghosts since childhood. 

Everywhere she goes, Hinano does her best to pretend they aren’t there, even when she desperately wishes she could help them move on. It turns being a hospital nurse into a challenging and lonely job. But when she learns Dr. Kyo Aizawa—the handsome, standoffish doctor of her ward—has the same gift, Hinano feels like she might have a chance to help these spirits. But Dr. Aizawa knows something she has yet to realize…

You should never help the dead.

Now you’re ready to enjoy horror without fear. Get yourself some frightfully good manga and manhwa today!