Japanese Ghost Mystery

Emma Hooper thought coming home to small-town life and the family farm would give her a chance to rest and recover from a traumatic accident. But that was before she started seeing ghosts. It was before Grandma Hooper started singing on the roof, and it was way, way before anybody spotted a ghost in a 19th-century cavalry uniform coming out of an outhouse. Can Emma learn to handle her newfound ability to see spirits, while figuring out a confusing relationship with the handsome local doctor? All while solving the ghastly murder of Preacher Jacob? 

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Eleanor Matsuura, known for AMC's The Walking Dead and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Paul Murray. In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs...

Book Two of the Lost Souls Series The much-anticipated follow-up novel to the instant national bestseller Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon picks up seven years later with go-between Ayumi, a young man caught between the demands of everyday life and his extraordinary gift: reuniting the living...

In Hillbilly Hollow, even the dead want the last word...When an eccentric local artist meets an untimely end during the annual Flower Festival, Emma gets pulled into two cases at once. First, the murder investigation. Second, the hunt for a dangerous burglar who has the whole town on edge. After all-brawn-and-no-brains Sheriff Tucker declares the death an accident, Emma's search for the killer hits a dead end... until a vengeful ghost comes calling. Can Emma decipher the mad ramblings of the disgruntled spirit?

When her cozy hometown is visited by death, Emma's investigative skills are enlisted by a secretive ghost. But with the uncooperative spirit holding so much back, and with the handsome local doctor pressing Emma for answers, will she ever get to the bottom of the case? Or will the Hollow be forever haunted by the secrets of the past? 

“They say every classroom has a ghost. In 3-C, she’s waiting for love.” At Yumesaki High, rumors whisper of a beautiful girl who died waiting for her confession to be returned — a ghost cursed to haunt Classroom 3-C under every full moon. When transfer student Souta is assigned to that very room, he meets Aoi — the quiet, artistic girl seated beside the cursed desk. The two are strangers at first, but as eerie encounters and ghostly visions pull them closer, their bond deepens into a romance that defies logic... and maybe fate. But their growing love awakens something ancient and ...

A dead catamaran. A missing battery grid. An arcing current of absolute terror. When logistics expert Sarah Cunningham bought the salvaged remains of The Osprey at an insurance auction, she didn’t see a tragedy—she saw a healthy margin for profit. The fifty-foot catamaran had spent two years rotting in a Key Largo yard after a horrific collision claimed three lives inside its hulls. An engineer to her core, Sarah laughs off local superstitions and moves aboard to rebuild the electrical system from scratch. Bilge pumps fail? Rusted float switches. A sudden, midnight drop to near-freezing...

Step into the haunted halls of Shimizu High, where shadows move, whispers seep from the walls, and every echoing step might be the last you hear. When Akira Sato transfers to a new school, he discovers strange carvings on his desk and warnings from classmates about something called Peta Peta. At first, it seems like nothing more than a ghost story—until he hears the footsteps himself. Each night drags him deeper into cursed corridors, mirrored rooms, and the terrifying Sixth Level, where the faceless Watcher waits. Together with Yui, a brave classmate who knows more than she dares to ...

SOME LEGENDS REFUSE TO BE ARCHIVED. THEY PREFER TO BE FED. In the neon-soaked heart of Shinjuku, a digital ghost is screaming. And it’s using Catherine’s voice. Catherine Duval came to Tokyo to preserve the past, not to be consumed by it. As an archivist, her world is defined by white gloves and high-resolution scans. But when she begins digitizing restricted woodcuts of the Karasu-Tengu, the screen flickers. A glitch overlays the monster’s predatory anatomy onto her own reflection, and suddenly, the line between flesh and folklore dissolves. This is not the Japan of travel brochures....

Meet the yokai: the spirits, demons, and monsters that have haunted Japan for a thousand years. Long before they crept into anime, manga, and video games, the yokai lived in whispered stories told after dark. They are the faceless woman on an empty street, the skeleton that towers over old battlefields, the water-dweller waiting at the river's edge. This is your guide to who they are and where they come from. Japan Monsters gathers more than 25 of these creatures and restless spirits into one collection, retelling each legend and revealing the fears, beliefs, and history behind it. Inside ...

A well-regulated bathhouse relies on absolute thermal consistency, so when the women's basin at the Plum Blossom Bathhouse suddenly drops to freezing temperatures, Manager Kenjiro Tanaka knows he has a catastrophic custodial failure on his hands. Instead of a mechanical plumbing issue, Kenjiro discovers a weeping phantom named Althea, a former healer who was betrayed and murdered by a corrupt Cardinal, then drowned in the very spring she used to cure the sick. To Kenjiro, this tragic, centuries-old spirit is not a terrifying monster to be violently vanquished by heavy-handed exorcists, but ...

I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born — Volume 4 By Daniel Ryu Kazeyama Shin’yume is a city that looks alive in photographs and slightly cursed in person. Crescent Moon Academy looms over everything like a beautiful mistake, its stone towers watching the island the way a ghost watches the last person who still remembers her name. Ryu Kazeyama is just trying to survive the year without being haunted, devoured, emotionally destroyed, or forced to fill out more paperwork. Unfortunately, the universe has other plans. Yuki is growing more powerful and more fragile at the...

Jimmy, an introspective and well-traveled social studies teacher, lives a quiet life teaching at a Minnesota high school. Having spent several decades in Japan—a country he considers his second home—he is caught off guard when an ancient and unfinished legacy follows him back across the Pacific. As the sun sets, strange events begin to unfold in Jimmy’s home: first, a disembodied hand appears in the moonlight, followed by the full apparition of a Japanese woman dressed in a traditional kimono. Though separated by the boundaries of time and space, life and death, Jimmy and the ...

A ghostly visit from her former landlady draws Emma away from sleepy little Hillbilly Hollow to investigate a murder in the big city. But what seems like a straightforward case soon becomes entangled with an event from Emma's past and a personal quest for justice. With the attractive but bungling Sheriff Tucker at her side, will Emma be tempted by the chance to avenge an old wrong? 

A well-regulated bathhouse relies on absolute thermal consistency, making a sudden, freezing drop in temperature in the women's basin an unacceptable operational failure. Manager Kenjiro Tanaka discovers the source of this localized thermal void is not a mechanical issue, but the weeping, ectoplasm-leaking ghost of Saint Althea. Wrongfully accused of witchcraft, murdered by a corrupt Cardinal, and drowned in the very spring she used to heal the sick, Althea's spirit is trapped in a millennia-old loop of false guilt and sorrow. However, rather than calling in destructive exorcists who would ...

Bridget Jones meets James Bond! What happens when you stumble in the arms of a gorgeous man with DANGER! written all over? Especially, when you're stuck in your worst magical eclipse? FREE on Kindle Unlimited! I’m Sophie Rowling. I used to be a world-renowned violinist, until my world was turned upside down. Following a freak accident in Paris, I can’t remember how to play the violin anymore. To make matters worse, I’m supposed to perform for my childhood teacher’s retirement party, which is just weeks away. Usually I would turn to my BFFs, Jackie the ghost and Allegra the violin ...

A witch violinist, Romance bubbling in the cauldron, the return of a ghost and fairy… Throw in an overprotective daddy and freaky mobsters getting in the way. FREE on Kindle Unlimited! I’m Sophie Rowling. Violinist, witch, and wholehearted believer in Magic and Happily Ever After. A terminal case of musician’s block and lost magic used to be my biggest problems. Dante Walker. Tall, cocky, and mysterious Mr. Wrong… who turns out to be the magical cure for my musician’s block. After rescuing me from murderous kidnappers, he ends up spending the night with me, in the same bed, and…...

Japan is falling apart. A puppet Emperor. Warlords at each other's throats. And somewhere in the northern fog, the dead are walking. Inspector Kenshi investigates crimes for the imperial court. He is methodical, precise, and privately devastated — his wife Yuki was murdered twelve months ago, her hands folded by someone who was in no hurry. He has not cried since. He has not stopped working since. The difference is that Yuki still talks to him. When a lord's entire wedding feast is found dead — blue-lipped, cups still raised — Kenshi is dispatched to investigate. What begins as a ...

I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born: Volume 6 After surviving the deadliest night in Crescent Moon Academy's history, Ryu Kazeyama hoped life might finally slow down. Instead, Shin'yume changes overnight. With the academy forced to relocate classes, the crumbling Shin'yume-sou onsen suddenly fills with students, strange visitors, and new responsibilities. Old friendships deepen, unlikely alliances begin to form, and the scars left by recent tragedy refuse to fade. As Ryu struggles to navigate ghosts, vampires, succubi, ninja clans, and a city where the supernatural ...

In 1944, the United States Army doesn't believe in ghosts. Captain Arthur Carmichael is about to discover they are dead wrong. Captain Arthur Carmichael is a military psychiatrist who survives the chaos of a world at war by reducing human trauma to cold, clinical data. Sent to a remote, rain-battered farmhouse on the Oregon coast, his mission is simple: institutionalize a grieving war widow to stop her "delusional" letters from disrupting military morale. Dorothy Fletcher's husband is missing in action in the Pacific. Yet, she claims he returns to her every night between two and three in ...