Junji Ito (Japanese: 伊藤 潤二, Hepburn: Itō Junji, born July 31, 1963) is a Japanese horror manga artist. Among his best-known works are "Tomie," a series about an immortal girl who drives her obsessed admirers insane; "Uzumaki," a three-volume series about a town obsessed with spirals; and "Gyo," a two-volume story in which fish are controlled by a strain of sentient bacteria called the "death stench."