Japanese Horror Fiction

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.

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。

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。

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。

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。

地球上の全生命滅亡まで30年……。全地球規模のプロジェクトが始動した!グレースは、真っ白い奇妙な部屋で、たった一人で目を覚ました。

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。

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！

その孤島に招き寄せられたのは、たがいに面識もない、職業や年齢も様々な十人の男女だった。だが、招待主の姿は島にはなく、やがて夕食の席上、彼らの過去の犯罪を暴く謎の声が……無気味な童謡の歌詞通りに、彼らが一人ずつ殺されてゆく！　強烈なサスペンスに彩られた最高傑作。新訳決定版。

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.

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?

怪談文芸の大家としても知られた田中貢太郎が二十年の歳月を費やして蒐集した　怪異恐怖記録の集大成...

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.

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.

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、、、

エミリー・ロッダの人気シリーズ『デルトラ・クエスト』が待望のオーディオブック化！
世界31カ国で翻訳・出版され、日本でも累計470万部を超えている大ベストセラーを、
原作の世界観そのままに、臨場感にあふれた演技でお送りします。

デルトラを守っていた7つの宝石が、影の大王に奪われた！
果たして少年リーフは、魔境に隠された7つの宝石を見つけ出し、見事デルトラを救うことができるのか・・・

リーフたちの冒険が、いま始まる！

オーストラリアの作家エミリー・ロッダが2001年より発表している人気シリーズ『デルトラ・クエスト』。
本国オーストラリアでヒットし、その後アメリカ、中国など世界31ヶ国でも翻訳・出版され、
日本でも累計470万部を超えている、児童書の世界的ベストセラーです。

ロールプレイングゲーム感覚の新しい作風が人気となり、日本でも漫画化、テレビアニメ化、ゲーム化され、
若年層を中心に親しまれているこの人気作品を、オーディオブックで順次配信いたします。

第1巻は、リーフたちの冒険の始まりを描く物語。