Japanese Horror Fiction

At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across the city like smoke . . .' So begins The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy's incredible follow-up to The God of Small Things...

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...

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to people outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within; the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders…

Brought to you by Penguin. Murakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece: a sci-fi pastiche and a Utopian fantasy novel ingeniously woven together. A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan. Unicorn skulls and voracious librarians. John Coltrane and...

From Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling to Satyajit Ray and R. K. Narayan, this text is a collection of spine-chilling tales of the supernatural from India...

Brought to you by Penguin. *Not Suitable For Vegetarians* Ed is in trouble with the yakuza. He's gambled away all his money and his family is at risk. But just as he’s about to lose everything, he receives an offer he can’t refuse. A reclusive billionaire is looking for a private chef. The...

クトゥルフ神話はラヴクラフトとその周囲の作家らによって創始され体系化された神話世界である。 かつて地球を支配していた恐るべき邪神たちが現代に蘇るというテーマを主体とする。 本オーディオブックでは、クトゥルフ神話の一部と見なされる短編・掌編の中から、 「クトゥルフの呼び声」「ナイアルラトホテップ」「ダゴン」「ユゴスより来るもの」の4作品を収録。 ラヴクラフトの死後も、確立された体系を基に多くの作家たちによって書かれ続けてきたクトゥルフ神話。 その源流となる恐怖を、貴方にお話しよう。

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...

You want to learn Japanese, but with something exciting...and scary! You get 14 stories inside this audiobook. You learn about spooky Japanese superstitions, traditions, and culture while learning the Japanese language at the same time!

人類の希望は、遥か11・9光年の彼方――。たったひとりの冴えた相棒と、謎の解明に挑む!未知の地球外生命体アストロファージ――

『ゴールデン街ホラーズ ON AIR』とは 新宿の夜に帳が下り、妖しいネオンと喧騒が街を覆い尽くす。無数の人生ドラマが交錯するゴールデン街の路地裏、その奥にひっそりと佇む古びた看板を掲げた場所に、怪談ユニット「ゴールデン街ホラーズ」の隠れ家がある。

その日から10年が過ぎた。人類は激減し、通信、水道、電気、ガスなどのインフラは機能停止。都市は廃墟と化し、植物の楽園となった。生き残った者たちが知恵を寄せ合って作った小さなコミュニティには、さまざまな人間が流れ着く。

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.

“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.

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? 

Behold the Many is the eerily beautiful story of three young sisters, Anah, Aki, and Leah. In 1913, they are sent away from their family for treatment for tuberculosis to an orphanage in Hawaii's Kalihi Valley. Of the three, two will die there, in spite of the nuns' best efforts to save them, and only Anah, the eldest, will grow to adulthood. But the ghosts of the dead children are afraid to leave the grounds of St. Joseph's, which is the only place they have known as home, and as Anah prepares to begin married life away from the orphanage, these ghost children grow angry.

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。

その日。サンディエゴの検視官補と助手は、目の前の遺体が動き出すのを目撃し、国勢調査局の統計学者のもとには、身元不明遺体に関する異状なデータが届き始める。

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。

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。