Descend into the underworld of Tokyo’s metro system in the first volume of this acclaimed manga horror series. Below Tokyo’s metro system is a world more frightening than anyone could imagine. Anna is nearly drawn into its depths when she follows the suicidal Rei down an escalator to hell. The mysterious guide Seiya pulls her back. But now they must find a way out of Tokyo’s secret metro lines in time to escape Rei and the ghosts who inhabit the darkness . . .

Terror awaits the people of Tokyo, with gruesome lessons only the dead can teach. Anna almost descends to the dark side when she follows the suicidal Rei down an escalator to hell. Seiya pulls her back, but will they make it out of Tokyo's secret metro lines in time to escape Rei and the ghosts who inhabit the Tokyo underground? A waitress at a maid cafe sparks jealousy. A mother who can't handle the responsibility of raising her child commits a horrible crime. An ancient sword awakens a psychotic samurai. And finally, the solemn guide Seiya reveals his own tragic past and the nature of his gifts that are his curse.

In the third and final volume of the acclaimed horror manga series, the gateway between life and death reveals its dark secrets. Deep beneath Tokyo there exists a rift between this world and the next, a gateway to a world of spirits and death. Guiding those who find themselves lost in this world-between-worlds is Seiya, a mysterious young man who has the ability to tell who is destined to live and whose fate it is to pass through to the other side. But where do Seiya’s powers come from? Why do people keep slipping through the cracks between worlds? And just what is lurking on the other side?

Terror awaits the people of Tokyo, with gruesome lessons only the dead can teach, in the second volume of this manga horror anthology series. The short stories in Dark Metro 2 go even deeper into the dark side of Tokyo’s haunted underground. A waitress at a maid cafe sparks jealousy. A mother who can't handle the responsibility of raising her child commits a horrible crime. An ancient sword awakens a psychotic samurai. And finally, the solemn guide Seiya reveals his own tragic past—and the nature of his gifts that are his curse.

This translation originally copyrighted in 2009.

The basis of two bestselling computer games Metro 2033 and Metro Last Light, the Metro books have put Dmitry Glukhovsky in the vanguard of Russian speculative fiction alongside the creator of Night Watch, Sergei Lukyanenko. A year after the events of METRO 2033 the last few survivors of the apocalypse, surrounded by mutants and monsters, face a terrifying new danger as they hang on for survival in the tunnels of the Moscow Metro. Featuring blistering action, vivid and tough characters, claustrophobic tension and dark satire the Metro books have become bestsellers across Europe.

Twenty years after Doomsday, survivors of World War Three live in an underground world they have created in the subway system of Moscow. The most stubborn of the survivors, Artyom, will give anything to find and lead his own people to life again on the earth's surface.