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.

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.

Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside—the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But Lydia can't eat any of this. The only thing she can digest is blood, and it turns out that sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London—where she is living away from her vampire mother for the first time—is much more difficult than she'd anticipated.

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?

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.

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.

東京都荒川区の超高層マンションで起きた凄惨な殺人事件。

愛人の妻を殺したとして起訴された若い女性。突然供述を覆し、無実を主張。さらに失踪していた愛人が現れ―—二転三転する裁判。真実はどこに･･･　緻密な展開、謎解きだけに終わらない繊細な心情表現、テンポのいい文体でお楽しみください。

累計５０万部突破！「最後の医者」シリーズの著者が贈る＜既刊発掘シリーズ＞第１弾、新装版を音声化！衝撃のホラーサスペンス！コミックスも好評発売中！

神紅大学ミステリ愛好会の葉村譲と会長の明智恭介は、いわくつきの映画研究会の夏合宿に参加するため、同じ大学の探偵少女、剣崎比留子と共にペンション紫湛荘を訪ねた。

Would you dare to challenge yourself to a spooky night of haunted stories that'll make your hair stand on end? That shiver that runs down your spine might be just chills of the night, or maybe something else has come to visit you? In any case, make yourself comfortable and prepare to sink your teeth into this haunting collection of Japanese Scary Ghost Stories. If something terrible befalls you this night, then don't find me. You have been warned....

この国でも…

登美彦氏史上、これまでになく毛深く、波乱万丈。（登美彦氏談） 「面白きことは良きことなり!」が口癖の矢三郎は、狸の名門・下鴨家の三男。宿敵・夷川家が幅を利かせる京都の街を、一族の誇りをかけて、兄弟たちと駆け廻る。が、、、

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.

若い夫婦が自宅で惨殺され、現場には「怒」という血文字が残されていた。犯人は山神一也、二十七歳と判明するが、その行方は杳として知れず捜査は難航していた。そして事件から一年後の夏――。千葉の港町で働く槙洋平・愛子親子、東京の大手企業に勤めるゲイの藤田優馬、沖縄の離島で母と暮らす小宮山泉の前に、身元不詳の三人の男が現れた。

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?

真犯人Xは生きている――。網川は、高井は栗橋の共犯者ではなく、むしろ巻き込まれた被害者だと主張して、「栗橋主犯・高井従犯」説に拠る滋子に反論し、一躍マスコミの寵児となった。

特捜本部は栗橋・高井を犯人と認める記者会見を開き、前畑滋子は事件のルポを雑誌に連載しはじめた。

群馬県の山道から練馬ナンバーの車が転落炎上。

鞠子の遺体が発見されたのは、「犯人」がHBSテレビに通報したからだった。