Numerous fears inhabit the stories in the collection, which are as follows: Things pan out from there, and not everyone makes it out alive.Even a fragment is frightening.Marking a return to horror manga for the first time in eight years, Fragments of Horror is Junji Ito's fourth anthology of assorted short stories, closely following in the footsteps of the Voices in the Dark serials. To make matters stranger, at the center of it all, being maneuvered around the house, is the magician puppet Jean-Pierre. Haruhiko has his doubts, however being put off by the creepy puppet servants and the bizarre lifestyle. They describe their existence as very relaxing and peaceful, and seem completely happy, to the point that Natsumi wishes to join them.
The brother and his family have allowed themselves to be turned into puppets, constantly operated by several trained puppeteers hidden in the ceiling above. Of course, as usual with a Junji Ito story, things in the big house get pretty twisted. They go to visit and find him living in an opulent mansion with his family. Eventually, however, they discover that their older brother lives nearby. Things are peaceful enough, and Haruhiko even reunites with an old girlfriend from his childhood. Haruhiko and his sister have been living together, trying to make ends meet. He also takes one thing with him when he goes: Jean-Pierre, the magician puppet, who is royally creepy to look at.Īfter Haruhiko's father sickens and dies, we leap forward a few years. Before he leaves, however, he shares a cryptic theory with Haruhiko: we don't control puppets, they control us. No one, save the father, is particularly content with this lifestyle of constant uprooting, and eventually, the older brother runs away. Without going into too many spoilers, the story focuses on Haruhiko, a boy who travels around the country with his father, brother and little sister Natsumi as a performing troupe of puppeteers. RELATED: Yashahime's Heroines Are Given an Epic Quest. As you might expect, Marionette Mansion revolves around puppets.
That being said, it stands out from many of his other short stories, both due to quality and content. It features many of his tropes- big empty modernist houses, hideous body horror, and, of course, an unknowable and terrifying monster at the center of it. Marionette Mansion, also published as House of Puppets, is one such story by Junji Ito.
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