Japanese Supernatural

A terrifying gathering of dozens of classic Japanese tales of monsters and demons, yokai and oni and yūrei, that live on in popular contemporary manga, anime, J-horror films, and video games A Penguin Classic Flesh-eating oni demons, kappa water sprites, shapeshifting kitsune foxes, vengeful...

From the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a mesmerizing novel of eleven strange buildings and one terrible secret. A lonely hut in the woods. A murder house. A hidden chamber. A mysterious shrine. A home in flames. A nightmarish prison. . . . Each of the buildings...

A summer on a remote US air base in Okinawa is the last place teenager Kyle Taylor wants to be. Trapped in the oppressive heat and the even more oppressive silence of his father’s empty guest quarters, he’s a prisoner of paradise. But when he falls in with a group of military brats who know the island’s secrets, Kyle discovers a new, more dangerous kind of prison. Deep in the off-limits jungle lies a sealed Japanese command bunker, a tomb untouched since the final days of World War II. Lured by the thrill of exploring a place no one has entered for eighty years, the teens break the ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A suspenseful magical realism novel about a mysterious teenage “go-between” who arranges meetings between the living and the dead, from multimillion-copy Japanese bestselling author Mizuki Tsujimura. I bring together the living and the departed. I am the go-between. When...

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?

The academy has fallen silent. The dead have not. Crescent Moon Academy is no longer a school. Its wards are broken, its halls overrun, and its buried past is clawing its way back into the present. As noppera-bō reclaim the campus and ancient authority is invoked from the shadows, Ryu Kazeyama is forced into a role he never wanted: leader, protector, and last line between chaos and collapse. Shion is still out there—changed, dangerous, and bound by a necromancer’s influence she can barely resist. Trust is fractured. Loyalties are tested. And the institution meant to shelter them all ...

I Fell in Love with a Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born — Vol. 3 Ryu Kazeyama never asked for peace, but even chaos has its limits. Crescent Moon Academy still reeks of incense, cigarette smoke, and old VHS tapes, but the ghosts are getting louder—and some of them aren’t dead anymore. As Ryu tries to balance his doctorate homework, his rent, and his increasingly complicated feelings for the undead, the world around him begins to crack. Yuki, the ghost who changed his life, has started to fade. Shion, the vampire who pretends not to care, is caught between hunger and loyalty. And ...

What if the girl you love isn’t alive—and never was? Ryu wakes up in a teenage body, trapped in a supernatural high school he’s never heard of. His past is gone, his name rewritten, and the only thing that feels real anymore is Yuki—the ghost girl who won’t leave his side. In Part 3 of I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born, Ryu’s bond with Yuki grows deeper, stranger, and more dangerous. When they share a brief, impossible moment of physical contact, everything changes. Is she becoming more real—or is he fading into her world? Natsumi, the predatory cat-...

16 years of peace and prosperity have passed since Lord Otori Takeo united the Three Countries. Takeo and his beloved consort, Kaede, have three daughters and a happy family life. Their success has attracted the attention of the distant Emperor and his general, the warlord Saga Hideki, who covet the wealth of the Countries. Meanwhile, the violent acts and betrayals of the past will not lie buried, and other secrets will not stay hidden. Everything that Takeo and Kaede have achieved is threatened.

I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born — Vol. 4, Part 1 The ghosts of Shin’yume aren’t quiet anymore. Ryu thought he understood Crescent Moon Academy, its crumbling dorms, its dying lightbulbs, the smell of dust and rain that never leaves the halls. But things are shifting. The dead are restless, and the living are starting to act like they know it. Shion’s loyalty is bending, Yuki’s warmth feels colder than it should, and the lines between love, memory, and madness are starting to blur. As the Academy prepares for its spring dance, strange dreams spill into ...

The dance is over. The night isn’t. Ryu Kazeyama never asked to be fifteen again. He never asked for a ghost girl’s love, a vampire’s hunger, or the black-dragon spirit coiled behind his ribs. He especially didn’t ask to become the most wanted student on the forgotten island of Shin’yume. But fate doesn’t care what he asked for. Shion has vanished into the dark with emotions she can’t control. Yuki’s borrowed body is running out of time. Murasaki has stolen something dangerous in Ryu’s name. Azuki’s smiles are hiding cracks. And something old beneath the island is waking...

On a forgotten island off the coast of Japan, Crescent Moon Academy rots between eras—half-buried in the 1980s, half-haunted by what refuses to stay dead. The paint peels, the onsen steams, and the students aren’t quite human. Ryu never meant to end up here. He wanted an escape, maybe even a new beginning. What he found instead were fractured classrooms full of yokai, ghosts with unfinished stories, and a vampire girl with sharp teeth and sharper secrets. The deeper he sinks into Shin’yume’s strange rhythms, the more he learns that love and terror often blur together. At Crescent ...

A haunted boy. A beautiful ghost. A love story that refuses to stay buried. Ryu thought surviving Crescent Moon Academy was hard enough—then he found out the girl haunting him died decades before he was born. In Volume 3, Part 2 of this emotionally charged supernatural saga, Ryu’s fragile peace is shattered as he dives deeper into the truth behind Yuki’s death—and the nightmare that still clings to her soul. With secrets unraveling, new allies emerging, and old enemies drawing closer, Ryu must face the one question he’s been avoiding: What happens if he saves her? And what if he ...

The Forest That Watches: Hauntings of Aokigahara by G.J. Fene Beneath the towering shadow of Mount Fuji lies Aokigahara, the infamous “Sea of Trees”—a place where legends whisper and shadows linger. In The Forest That Watches, G.J. Fene weaves together chilling accounts of those drawn into the labyrinthine depths of Japan’s most haunted forest. From travelers chasing beauty to locals seeking closure, each true encounter reveals how Aokigahara bends time, memory, and sanity. Flickering lights beckon explorers deeper, ghostly voices call out for the living to “take their place,” ...

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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...

I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born – Volume 5 Ryu Kazeyama wanted a second chance at life. What he got instead was Crescent Moon Academy. Once a burned-out man from West Virginia, Ryu now lives in the body of a teenager on a hidden island where ghosts attend school, demons flirt in the hallways, and the local hot spring doubles as a supernatural dormitory. Between fixing broken plumbing at Shin’yume-sou and surviving classes with monsters, Ryu’s new life is strange… but it’s starting to feel real. Too real. The fragile balance holding the island together is...

I Fell In Love With A Girl Who Died Before I Was Even Born – Volume 4, Part 4 By Daniel Ryu Kazeyama Crescent Moon Academy is shifting again, and this time, Ryu Kazeyama can feel the change humming in his bones. Yuki’s borrowed body is learning how to live, how to breathe, how to stay… but nothing on Shin’yume Island lasts without a cost. Shion, more delinquent vampire than elegant monster, is wrestling with emotions she refuses to name. Azuki spirals between chaos and sincerity, carrying secrets she doesn’t fully understand. And Hotaru… Hotaru burns bright enough to scorch the ...

Step back into the neon-lit chaos of Crescent Moon Academy, where the studio is cramped, the guests are supernatural, and the host is one bad decision away from a complete emotional collapse. Inego Fallensworth wanted an educational radio show about yōkai. What he got instead? A vampire with an ego, an oni with zero sense of volume control, shape-shifters who refuse to stay on topic, a ghost who may be too honest for her own good, and a werewolf who reminds everyone that being a monster isn’t nearly as fun as the movies make it look. And, of course… Azuki. The tanuki who refuses to ...

Welcome to Crescent Moon Academy. It’s haunted, cursed, understaffed, and smells like expired soy milk. But for Ryu, a quiet teenage boy just trying to survive the school year, it’s also home. Unfortunately, it’s home to other things too. Like: A barefoot tanuki girl who starts a dairy cult in the freezer aisle A ninja cheerleader with glittery lockpicks A literal ghost who insists on sitting in his lap A new transfer student who may or may not be an emissary of Inari And one very tiny yokai with a tofu tray and way too much power After a routine field trip to the local Piggly Wiggly ...