Japanese Horror Fiction

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...

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.

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was an Irish writer known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo. His book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, comprises two parts, the first being the "Kwaidan Proper" and the second, "Insect-Studies", which consists of an essay each on ants, butterflies and mosquitos. According to the author, most of the folk tales and ghost stories in the first part were translated from old Japanese texts. The themes encompass resurrection, sacrifice, magic, and the realm of dreams.

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists. A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed...

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...

Vampires: murderous creatures in the shape of humans, they stalk the night feeding on the blood of innocents. Seemingly immortal, they can be destroyed only by the use of a stake through the heart, severing of their heads, or exposure to sunlight. By the year AD 12,090, vampires have ruled the Earth for almost 300 years, and it is only these weaknesses that have kept these foul monsters from totally overrunning the world. But what happens when those rules no longer apply?

New York Times Most Anticipated Book for 2026 USA Today Most Anticipated Books of 2026 Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Books of 2026 Bookriot "Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026" In this lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, two people living centuries...

In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before, finally decides it is time to remarry. Since Aoyama is a bit rusty when it comes to dating, a filmmaker friend proposes that, in order to attract the perfect wife, they do a casting call for a movie they don't intend to produce. As the resumes pile up, only one of the applicants catches Aoyama's attention - Yamasaki Asami - a striking young former ballerina with a mysterious past. But she is a far cry from the innocent young woman he imagines her to be.

Around midnight, under a lonely street lamp in a provincial town in Japan, lies a white woman, a blonde, alone, robbed of all four limbs, yet undead. Indeed, a rumor's been circulating among the local girls that a vampire has come to their backwater, of all places. Koyomi Araragi, who prefers to...

Based on Japanese literature and foldlore, Kwaidan contains 17 stories. The story of Loichi, the blind biwa player who was called to perform for the dead; of Muso, the journeying priest who encountered a man eating goblin; of the samurai who outwitted the ghost of a dead man. All these plus 14 other spooly tales are included in this collection.

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Bakemono, literally “altered thing,” which translates as “monster.” Monogatari, literally “thing narrated,” which translates as “tale.” Combined into a neologism by he of the reversible nom de plume, they yield BAKEMONOGATARI, the monster tale that kicked off a series whose anime...

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“Congratulations, you’ve won the lottery!” shouts the angel Prapura to a formless soul. The soul hasn’t been kicked out of the cycle of rebirth just yet - he’s been given a second chance. He must recall the biggest mistake of his past life while on "homestay" in the body of 14-year-old Makoto Kobayashi. It looks like Makoto doesn’t have a single friend, and his family don’t seem to care about him at all. But as the soul begins to live Makoto’s life on his own terms, he grows closer to the family and the people around him and sees their true colors more clearly.

明治の頃、全世界に向け“日本”を紹介した小泉八雲。彼は、新聞記者であり、教師、翻訳家、紀行文作家、随筆家、小説家、そして日本研究家であった。小泉八雲…、本名、ラフカディオ・ハーン。ギリシャ生れのイギリス人である。彼ほど日本の文化、日本人の心を深く見つめ、そして描き綴った外国人はいないと言われています。八雲が見つけた、和を尊び、自然を愛する“美しき日本”、その姿をわれわれは彼が遺した幾多の作品から知ることができます。八雲は、口承されてきた日本各地の怪談や幽霊話、民話、伝説を世に出しました。今回、収録した『雪女』 『ろくろ首』 『貉(むじな)』 『耳無芳一の話』等の有名な話も、八雲がいたからこそ世に出た話であります。日本の自然と文化を深く愛し、その姿を世界に広めた功績は偉大であると言えます。日本をこよなく愛し、そして多くの日本人に愛された小泉八雲の繊細で情緒豊かな作品をどうぞオーディオブックでお楽しみください!

エドガー・アラン・ポーの短篇小説。舞台はノルウェーの海。神々しいまでの自然描写、手に汗握る歴史的名作です!巨大な渦潮(メールストロム)に呑み込まれた男はいったいどうなるのか。必死に生きようとする極限状態の人間心理や渦潮の様子が見事に描写されています。真っ黒の空、荒れ狂う波…。差し迫る恐怖に圧倒されます。凄まじき大自然の恐ろしさ、美しさをオーディオブックでご堪能ください!古典でありながら、今なお色褪せていません。(C)2008青空文庫

この作品は、二重人格(ドッペルゲンガー)の作品である。人間の二面性をうまくとらえ、かつ恐ろしく描かれている。二重人格が描かれたのは本作が最初であり、この作品に影響を受け、生まれた傑作も数多い。(『ドリアン・グレイの肖像』、『ジキル博士とハイド氏』等) (C)2008青空文庫

大統領ミルキの支配する、独裁国家ミルキ国。そこでは、博士コハクの発明した「音楽浴」によるマインドコントロールが行われていた。その技術力と知識をもって、国家の宝とされていた博士コハクであったが、国家の権力を掌握しようと企む女大臣アサリの策略によってあらぬ疑いをかけられ処刑されてしまう。 アサリの企てが進む中、かつてコハクが恐れていた火星人の地球襲来が現実のものとなる。 国民の士気を鼓舞するために「音楽浴」が絶えず続けられることになったが、その「音楽浴」の過剰な強制により、皮肉にも国民たちは次々と倒れてしまう。 もはや打つ手なしの窮地に追い込まれたミルキ国であったが、そこへ死んだはずの博士コハクが、以前より開発を進めていた人造人間の軍団を従えて現れる…

Hear the Wind Sing is the first novel by Haruki Murakami. First published in the June 1979 issue of Gunzo, one of the most influential literary magazines in Japan, it was published one month later as a book. Hear the Wind Sing is the first book in the "Trilogy of the Rat," a series of...

この『雪女』は小泉八雲が民話をもとに書いたものですが、今あらためて内容にふれてみると、情景・心情描写がとても精緻で、非常に優れた名作であることが分かります。美しくも儚く、そして冷酷。決して口にしてはならない雪女とのタブー。二人の愛の結末は…? その後の「雪女」像の印象を決定づけた小泉八雲の有名な怪談物語を本オーディオブックでお楽しみください。何か素敵な再発見を期待して。