UFO MUSHROOM INVASION

Originally published in 1976, Shirakawa Marina's UFO Mushroom Invasion is a masterpiece of sci-fi horror. Drawing on his deep knowledge of Japanese folklore and the supernatural, Shirakawa serves up one of manga history's cult classics, an unforgettably creepy entry in the canon of spore-horror. A flying saucer crashes deep in the mountains of Japan. Wary of the hyper-intelligent beings they find inside, the government hides it. But it's not the strange visitors themselves that they should be afraid of -- the real danger is the parasitic spores smuggled aboard! Will Earth survive the UFO Mushroom Invasion?! With an essay and a color section about Marina's other work by weirdologist Udagawa Takeo, UFO Mushroom Invasion is the second volume of SMUDGE, a line of vintage horror, occult, and dark fantasy manga, curated and translated by award-winning historian, Ryan Holmberg.