29 years later, Junji Ito’s classic horror short is now a vinyl-exclusive audio drama

Debopriyaa covers anime, movies, and TV at Polygon. She is a freelance film critic with a specialization in Southeast Asian cinema, sci-fi, and body horror. Her work has appeared at Inverse, Slash Film, Screen Rant, Fansided, and High on Films, among other outlets. Debopriyaa’s published chapbook, Frozen Sparks: A Rhapsodist's Tale, is available worldwide, and her poetry has also been published in literary journals like Gideon Poetry and White Noise Magazine. In Old Records comes to life with audio performances by Shoko Nakagawa and Poppy In 1997, horror manga artist Junji Ito published House of the Marionettes, a short-story collection centered on the macabre. Among them is the horror short “In Old Records,” in which a haunting melody on an unmarked vinyl record drives people to the brink of madness. This classic short is now a vinyl-exclusive audio drama named In Old Records, featuring performances by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Poppy and iconic voice actor Shoko Nakagawa. This Kickstarter project, created by Zero Zero Enterprises, brings the atmospheric horror of Ito's story to life, taking a metatextual approach to the haunted object aspect of the tale. Ito’s evocative m