The point of this article is to examine the concept of fear in Kazuo Umezu's early comics in the light of the three characteristics of his works; folkishness, strangeness, and fantasticality. Umezu successfully integrated the three elements into the genre "horror comics," in which fear is emphasized as the fundamental principle all other human emotions are subject to. His stress on the comprehensive nature of fear is related both to his idea of perspective in composition and to his ontological philosophy about the representative power of art.