We don’t do manga series in our recommendations here, just anime. However, that doesn’t mean that anime fans don’t want to lie in bed and read a few good chapters quietly before bed. Instead of branching out into manga recommendations, we’re going to give you a few good ones that you can look into. So if you want to read some good horror manga or are just some sort of anime hipster that wants to be all “I read the manga before it was cool and animated,” then check out these horror manga recommendations below.

Dead Tube

Dead Tube is a website, it s videos a flurry of sex and violence. The more disturbing the video and the more views it gets, the better the profit. Tomohiro is a member of his school’s film club. At present, he is being pestered by a girl from the swim team to make a video for her. When he accepts, he watches this girl murder a classmate brutally and naked for this Dead Tube submission.

Like God Says

Shun Takahata’s day started off as usual, right up until his teacher’s head explodes. Now he and his fellow classmates are forced to play children’s games with death on the line. No one knows why, all they know is they must win to survive.

I Am A Hero

Relatively failed manga artist Hideo Suzuki live3s a rather meager, mundane life. After confronting his girlfriend he suspects of cheating, he decides to revisit her house only to find that she has changed into a living nightmare – a zombie. Soon the rest of the world begins to change and he does what he can to survive it.

Screaming Lessons

This is a manga of numerous short stories. Every chapter is another chilling tale, many based on popular Japanese urban legends and scary tales.

Bastard

Ruthlessly bullied and meek, Seon Jin has a secret. He is forced to lure pretty women to his home for his father – great business man, upstanding citizen, and also serial killer – to kill. However, one day, his father sets his sights on a classmate that helped him, so begins Jin’s long battle with trying to so save her.

(Technically, it is a Korean Manhwa/webtoon, but still very good if you are not a purist.)

Any and All Junji Ito Manga

Junji Ito is to horror manga as Stephen King is to horror novels, though not quite as prolific. Gyo, Uzumaki, Tomie, and many, many short manga series. Though some of them are more black comedy, all are a must for a horror fan. He doesn’t really do long series, but you can find various collections of his works. In technicality, many of his works have been adapted to anime, even the shorter ones in the Junji Ito Collection, but not all of them. It would be a shame to miss them.

Fort of Apocalypse

After being framed for murder, Yoshiaki Maeda i sentenced to a juvenile detention center where he manages to make friends with much more vicious criminals than himself. Unfortunately, things get so much worse when the zombie apocalypse suddenly storms the world.

Doubt

Rabbit Doubt is a popular cell phone game. People are grouped together where they must hunt down the wolf hidden among them. Every turn, the wolf will eliminate one player until found or everyone else is dead. Unfortunately for Yuu Aikawa and his friends, he’s playing it for real after being abducted.

The Drifting Classroom

Sixth grader Shou is much like any sixth grade boy, wild and unwilling to grow up. however, that all changes when an earthquake seemingly dislodged the campus of his school and transports it into a dangerous wilderness. Now, facing food shortages, threats within and without, and adults not adjusting well, Shou must shoulder a large burden on his small shoulders.

Suicide Island

The suicide rate in Japan has become such a problem that the government decides they will send the unsuccessful cases that do not want to live to an island. On this island they are free to live or die.

The Island of Giant Insects

Semi-outcast and resident insect nerd Oribe Mutsumi is on a trip with her class. However, after a plane crash, her knowledge of the outdoors comes in more handy to her classmates. However, rather unfortunately, the island is home to giant killer insects as well.

Real Account

One day, Ataru was scrolling through his social media when he found himself transported inside it with a series of people he didn’t know. Sounds pretty cool, until everyone realizes it is a game of life and death. If you have no followers, you die. If you fail at playing a game, you and your followers die. Is Ataru worth his followers lives?

MPD Psycho

Kazuhiko Amamiya is a detective, but he also has multiple personality disorder. Will his many variant personalities help him solve some of the most brutal and twisted cases that come his way or is there something more complex going on.

(Many of these are very graphic, but while it has been many years since I read this one, I still remember it as very brutally graphic.)

The Friends-Eater Classroom

Today was the day. Shouta Amano was ready to confess to his crush Koharu. Today was also the day he received a strange e-mail that marked him as healthy in the “Friend-Eater Game”. However, when his crush called him to the roof, he finds out she is marked as infected and the cure is his duodenum (part of the stomach). They both pass it off as a stupid prank, right up until his crush dies violently in front of him. From there on his class learns if you want to live, you better be ready to eat your friends.

51 Ways to Save Her

Attempting to get a job at a TV station, college senior Jin Mishima went to a recruitment orientation in Odaiba. Afterwards, he met a gothic Lolita trying to attend a concert who also happened to be his old junior high classmate. This would have been an inconsequential meeting is a massive earthquake didn’t hit afterwards and send the entire society into chaos.

There are a lot of good horror manga out there, do you have any more good ones to add to the pile?