U.F.O. Mushroom Invasion

    (Living the Line, 2024)

A flying saucer crashes deep in the mountains of Japan. Wary of the hyper-intelligent beings they find inside, the government hides from the public all news of the alien craft. 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?! Originally published in 1976, Shirakawa Marina’s UFO Mushroom Invasion is a masterpiece of sci-fi horror. Pulling on his deep knowledge of Japanese folklore and the supernatural, Shirakawa serves up one of manga history’s cult-classics and an unforgettably creepy entry in the canon of spore-horror. With an essay 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.
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