It’s not a slow start, however, but rather a methodical one, because Sena finds his horror through that near textbook-cold approach to storytelling. That doesn’t inherently mean that the work is horror.
The vivid descriptions of what is going on through these scenes are certainly not for the squeamish, but that’s true of any particularly vivid description of medical matters. For that first third of the book, you would be left wondering if Sena – himself a pharmacologist – was simply showing off. The first third of the book is almost textbook-like in the way that it discusses both scientific research and a medical operation. The book sat alongside the likes of The Ring and kickstarted a new wave of international interest in Japanese horror when it was new (and indeed was the first winner of the Japan Horror Novel Award), and has, in the nearly 30 years since, cemented itself as a modern classic. That’s the genius of Sena Hideaki’s seminal masterpiece from 1995, Parasite Eve. So imagine the horror of having our own body rebel against us at the very cellular level. Related reading: Our retro review of Parasite Eve 2. From the unkillable brutes of stalker horror, to the unfathomable nightmares of Lovecraft’s cosmic horror, and the literally untouchable ghosts of haunted tales, so much effective horror strips us of our ability to resist. Those things that go bump in the night are portrayed as being beyond our ability to resist, combat, or even comprehend. The goal of a lot of great horror is to leave us feeling disempowered. She would be able to create a daughter of Her own will, a life form even more perfect than She. She was the mistress, nuclei Her servants.
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