Japanese Horror Fiction

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.

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?

In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: 'rokuro-kubi', whose heads separate from their bodies at night; 'jikininki', or flesh-eating goblins; and terrifying faceless 'mujina' who haunt lonely neighbourhoods.

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?

墨田区・大川公園で若い女性の右腕とハンドバッグが発見された。

Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors—Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax—have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they’ve been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead. Together they return to the place where their friendship ended with one goal: find Ian and bring him home. So they restart the deadly game they never finished—an innocent card-matching challenge called Meido. A game without instructions.

大木ミノルの腐怪話とは 映画監督を本職とし、これまで多くの心霊映像の鑑定依頼を受けてきた大木ミノルによる初の怪談集。業界人による体験談を関係者からの秘話を交えて話す。

怪に酔い、妖かしに浸る深津さくらが集めた異界の玉手箱…知らず知らずのうちに異世界への入り口に…？洗うごとに大きくなるシャツの手形…頭の中に不意に浮かび上がった不吉な二文字…異世界、パラレルワールド、謎の漂流物…

怪談好きのツボを捉える！怒涛の実話17連発！軍事訓練中に音楽と共に現れた悪魔とされるもの…ベランダにばら撒かれた石のひとつひとつに…捨てても帰ってくるビンテージものの椅子…不思議＆怖いもの好きの急所を突く怪異の連続スーパーショット！

脳髄を直撃する渾身の語り！真っ暗な部屋の中に真っ白な女の素足が…この子は今に持ってかれるよ…女が立っていて半分冷蔵庫に埋まってるんですよ…息をもつかせぬ圧巻の9話！本邦ホラー界を牽引する絶対恐怖の語り部が待望の復活！

Jonathan is attracted to the ornate mirror from the first moment he sees it in the antique shop where he works after school. But there is something wrong with the mirror, something evil - as Jonathan will discover after he accidentally gets a trace of his blood on its surface in this disturbing tale of terror.

The strange kid at school, the odd woman in the apartment building, the troublesome man at work. Such people exist everywhere, in everyone’s lives. All it takes is a word for it to start. An unsettling question, a bizarre remark, or even a kind apology. Once their hooks sink in, the cracks form. Darkness floods into the recesses until nothing else remains, and then...Sirens, screaming, dull thuds on the pavement. They have always existed. They just are. And when they show up, people die.

The picturesque coastal town of Florence was known for millennia as a pleasure resort for the Nobility. As retribution for their decadence, the cruel and beautiful vampire inhabitants were "punished," driven out more than a thousand years ago by a solitary traveler in black. Only one—Baron Meinster—refused to leave, only to be thrown to the waves by the mysterious assassin. Summoned to contemporary Florence by Su-in, sister of a murdered village girl, the enigmatic Vampire Hunter D discovers a vampire curse ravaging the town's human inhabitants.

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.

【第4回創元SF短編賞を受賞。雄渾の遠未来ハードSF！】地球と太陽系を喪い、星の世界への進出を余儀なくされた人類は、生き延びるためにあらゆる形態の人間を生み出した。ぼくらもそうして生まれた宇宙船だ。そして今ぼくら2隻は特命を帯び、銀河中心にある巨大ブラックホールに向かって1600年に及ぶ旅を続けている――。

主人公ナタニエルは、幼い頃母親から子供の目玉を奪っていくという砂男の話を聞かされ、その実在を信じるようになる…自動人形・二重人格など怪奇小説の古典「砂男」を2人語りラジオドラマ化。

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.

【5分でゾッとする、本当にあったコワい話！】おつかいの途中、気づいたら霊界に迷い込んでいた!?おばけの学校、病院、神社、ホテル……ようこそ恐怖のツアーへ！！小学５年生の春休み。お父さんにおつかいをたのまれてコンビニに向かう途中、幽霊の女の子「レイちゃん」につかまって、連れてこられた先はなんと“霊界”。

雑誌『ミレニアム』を発行するミカエルたちの会社は経営危機に陥り、株式の30パーセントを大手メディア企業のセルネル社に売り渡していた。

「知ってる？　共犯者って、この世で最も親密な関係なんだって」……裏世界の中、鳥子が出逢ったばかりの空魚へ投げかけた言葉。