Stitches was a neat little collection of eerie tales.

The stories in this volume are not quite what you would call "horrific" or "terrifying". Instead they're ghost stories that create a pervasive sense of unease and mounting dread around the mundane, everyday aspects of ordinary people's lives. This brand of lower intensity, lingering, everyday, horror definitely has merit and doesn't always get the attention it deserves in modern media when it seems like everything is trying it's hardest to scar you for life.

I worry that people will see Junji Ito's name and immediately expect a Junji Ito level horror manga, (which this is not, he was merely the illustrator for these tales), and become frustrated when that's not what the book is. This hardly seems fair and on its own merits this collection is a spooky, unsettling series of stories good for a pleasant afternoon read.

People wanting a scarring, mind warping Junji Ito manga will be disappointed but that is not at all the fault of this collection.