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Deep in the mountains of Japan, a flying saucer smashes into the earth. Fearful of the strange and hyper-intelligent beings they find inside, the government hides from the public all news of the alien craft. But it's not the aliens themselves that they should be afraid of-the real danger is the parasitic spores they brought with them! Will earth survive the UFO MUSHROOM INVASION?! Originally published in 1976, Shirakawa Marina's UFO MUSHROOM INVASION is unanimously considered a masterpiece of Japanese sci-fi horror. Pulling on his deep knowledge of Japanese ghost stories and folklore, Shirakawa serves up one of Japanese comics' cult classics and an unforgettably creepy entry in the canon of spore-horror. UFO MUSHROOM INVASION is the second volume of SMUDGE, a line of classic pulp, horror, and dark fantasy manga, curated and translated into English by award-winning historian Ryan Holmberg.

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"""Shirakawa Marina manages to take the existential horror of mushrooms and UFOs seriously enough to make you ask yourself why you weren't scared of them already. Through painfully bold arrays of brush and linework, UFO Mushroom Invasion is the kind of comic that forces you to surrender to it; if Shirakawa can teach us anything, it's that audacity and dedication will always be a recipe for good horror."" -- Jenna Cha, THE SICKNESS"

"""Shirakawa Marina manages to take the existential horror of mushrooms and UFOs seriously enough to make you ask yourself why you weren’t scared of them already. Through painfully bold arrays of brush and linework, UFO Mushroom Invasion is the kind of comic that forces you to surrender to it; if Shirakawa can teach us anything, it’s that audacity and dedication will always be a recipe for good horror."" — Jenna Cha, THE SICKNESS “Dark, weird, mycology-obsessed old horror manga. Read it and know what has been missing from your manga life.” - Shaenon Garrity, Otaku USA “UFO Mushroom Invasion flew in from somewhere completely off my radar and I’m glad it did. I feel lucky to exist in a galaxy where there are still sublimely strange classic horror comics like this one waiting to be discovered.” - Minovsky “Reminiscent of sci-fi horror from the 1950s with all the campy charm it entails” - Lynzee Loveridge, Anime News Network"

"“UFO Mushroom Invasion flew in from somewhere completely off my radar and I’m glad it did. I feel lucky to exist in a galaxy where there are still sublimely strange classic horror comics like this one waiting to be discovered.” - Minovsky “Dark, weird, mycology-obsessed old horror manga. Read it and know what has been missing from your manga life.” - Shaenon Garrity, Otaku USA “Reminiscent of sci-fi horror from the 1950s with all the campy charm it entails” - Lynzee Loveridge, Anime News Network ""Shirakawa Marina manages to take the existential horror of mushrooms and UFOs seriously enough to make you ask yourself why you weren’t scared of them already. Through painfully bold arrays of brush and linework, UFO Mushroom Invasion is the kind of comic that forces you to surrender to it; if Shirakawa can teach us anything, it’s that audacity and dedication will always be a recipe for good horror."" — Jenna Cha, THE SICKNESS"

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