Japanese Horror

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From the bestselling author of the wildly inventive Strange Pictures and a phenomenon in Japan—unnatural layouts, trap doors, windowless rooms— a sinister conspiracy is concealed within a house’s warped and unsettling floor plans When a writer fascinated by the macabre is approached by an...

Elise Glyk is a disgraced athlete. Her brother, Callum, is a well-liked teacher who has gone missing. In Elise’s search for her brother, they both become captured in a remote, abandoned farm. Their captor hates Callum, and refuses to explain why, but she has little interest in Elise. So she offers a gruesome bargain: she'll let Elise go - if Elise kills Callum. That way, Elise can't talk to the police, not without getting arrested for murder.

ホームズとワトソンの描くミステリー小説の〈朗読〉第1弾。 赤毛の男が持ち込んだ奇妙な儲け話の裏に隠された犯罪計画をホームズが暴く!コナン・ドイルが自選第2位とする名作! ※本商品は、青空文庫(http://aozora.gr.jp)に納められた"The Red-Headed League"の翻訳版『赤毛連盟』(翻訳:大久保 ゆう)を底本としています。

Here are 22 charming Japanese Fairy Tales, translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki, including "My Lord Bag of Rice", "The Tongue-Cut Sparrow", "The Story of Urashima Taro, the Fisher Lad", "The Farmer and the Badger", "The Shinansha, or the South Pointing Carriage", "The Adventures of Kintaro, the Golden Boy", "The Story of Princess Hase", "The Story of the Man Who Did Not Wish to Die", "The Bamboo-Cutter and the Moonchild", "The Mirror of Matsuyama", and more.

The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi becomes a reluctant hero to a host of people whose lives he has touched and by whom he has been touched. Inevitably, he has to pit his skill against the naked blade of his greatest rival.

A dream-like Tokyo is in the grip of a brutal predator. A sadistic killer who turns his victims into works of art; then leaves letters behind taunting his pursuers. The police are clueless. The brilliant criminologist on his trail is always one step behind. Can anyone stop this phantom before he completes his hellish masterpiece? First published in 1929, this is the second full-length novel to feature the private detective Akechi Kogoro. Born as Hirai Tarō, Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) was an influential author and critic known for his tales of the mysterious and macabre. His pseudonym is a ...

In Ghostly Japan collects 12 ghostly stories from Lafcadio Hearn, deathless images of ghosts and goblins, touches of folklore and superstition, salted with traditions of the nation. While some of these stories contain nightmare imagery worthy of a midnight creature feature, others are not ghostly or ghastly at all. "Bits of Poetry" offers an engaging study on verse, and "Japanese Buddhist Proverbs" explains the meaning of several aphorisms based on Japanese cultural references.

At turns nonchalantly hip and charmingly deranged, Suzuki's singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works, from Margaret Atwood and Harumi Murakami, to Black Mirror and Ex Machina. In these darkly playful and punky stories, the fantastical elements are always earthed by the universal pettiness of strife between the sexes, and the gritty reality of life on the lower rungs, whatever planet that ladder might be on.

One hundred stories. One hundred candles. Most readers stop at ninety-nine. In old Edo, samurai and townsfolk played hyakumonogatari kaidankai, the gathering of one hundred weird tales. They lit a hundred candles on a summer night, told one ghost story per flame, and snuffed a candle after each, the room darkening toward the hundredth. Everyone agreed on one thing: when the last candle dies, something comes. So most gatherings stopped at ninety-nine. This book is the game. One hundred kaidan, retold and original, arranged as a hundred candles to be read one a night until the room goes dark....

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...

An Ancient Blade. A Drop of Blood. A Vengeful Demon. In the heart of rural Japan, an American graduate student unearths more than just history. When her blood christens a cursed katana, she awakens a vengeful samurai bound to the blade, a descendant of the very snake god who forged it. Now, this ancient demon stalks her, leaving a trail of death and destruction as he hungers for the rest of her blood to fuel his existence in the living world. Can three unlikely martial arts masters protect her from a supernatural force unleashed? Prepare for a relentless thrill ride where ancient power ...

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to people outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within; the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders…

This book collects the most frightening Japanese urban legends, taking the reader on a disturbing journey through Japanese folklore. From the best known to the darkest, these urban legends from Japan will give you the creeps!

Unit 731: The Japanese Auschwitz (The Underground Knowledge Series Book 9) exposes one of the darkest and least acknowledged chapters of the 20th Century – a covert Japanese concentration camp disguised as a military complex in Northeast China during World War Two. A place where science, ambition, and cruelty fused into industrialized murder. In the aftermath of that war, and indeed all wars before and since, few names evoke as much horror as Unit 731. Within its walls, prisoners were burnt, frozen, infected, dissected alive, and used as expendable test subjects in the pursuit of military...

人口わずか千三百、三方を尾根に囲まれ、未だ古い因習と同衾する外場村。猛暑に襲われた夏、悲劇は唐突に幕を開けた。山深い集落で発見された三体の腐乱死体。周りには無数の肉片が、まるで獣が蹂躙したかのように散乱していた――。

村人たちはそれぞれに凶器を握り締めた。「屍鬼」を屠る方法は分かっていた。鬼どもを追い立てる男たちの殺意が、村を覆っていく――。白々と明けた暁に切って落とされた「屍鬼狩り」は、焔に彩られていつ果てるともなく続いていった。

「尋常でない何かが起こっている」。死者の数は留まるところを知らず、村は恐怖の連鎖に陥っていた。山々に響き渡る読経、毎日のように墓場に消えていく真白き棺。さらにそのざわめきの陰で、忽然と姿を消している村人たちがいた――。

前代未聞の怪異が村に跋扈する中、閑散とした病院の奥で、連夜密かに地獄絵巻が繰り広げられていた。暗紅色の液体が入った試験管の向こうに、愛しい骸の変化を克明に記録する青ざめた顔。ゆっくり振り翳された杭……。

Not Your Typical Mythology Book — This One Brings Japan’s Culture to Life in Words and Pictures Japanese Myths: An Easy-Going Culture Journey into Japanese Mythology and Folklore is a beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read cultural deep dive that goes far beyond legends. With nearly 40 stunning illustrations, this book connects ancient gods, mysterious yokai, anime, shrines, daily rituals, and even travel spots—revealing how mythology still shapes the rhythm of everyday life in Japan. Perfect for anime fans, travelers, or anyone curious about Japan, this book offers a complete yet ...