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?

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....

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. 

ヤクザが支配する環境犯罪に囮捜査は功を奏すのか。

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 gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama, a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before, finally decides it is time to remarry. Since Aoyama is a bit rusty when it comes to dating, a filmmaker friend proposes that, in order to attract the perfect wife, they do a casting call for a movie they don't intend to produce. As the resumes pile up, only one of the applicants catches Aoyama's attention - Yamasaki Asami - a striking young former ballerina with a mysterious past. But she is a far cry from the innocent young woman he imagines her to be.

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.

某市立高校の芸術棟にはフルートを吹く幽霊が出るらしい――吹奏楽部は来る送別演奏会のため練習を行わなくてはならないのだが、幽霊の噂に怯えた部員が練習に来なくなってしまった。かくなる上は幽霊など出ないことを立証するため、部長は部員の秋野麻衣とともに夜の芸術棟を見張ることを決意。しかし自分たちだけでは信憑性に欠ける、正しいことを証明するには第三者の立会いが必要だ。……かくして第三者として白羽の矢を立てられた葉山君は夜の芸術棟へと足を運ぶが、予想に反して幽霊は本当に現れた！にわか高校生探偵団が解明した幽霊騒ぎの真相とは？第16回鮎川哲也賞に佳作入選したコミカルなミステリ。

江戸川乱歩の作品は沢山あるので、何を選んだら良いか分からない！
オススメがまとめてあれば！という声にお応えしました。

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.

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...

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。

 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。 

「大人のための」と断つたのは、子供には毒性がいささか強すぎるのと、話の性質思はずエロティックに傾くことがあつたのとで、大人の方により一層喜ばれさうだからです。 ・・・・・あとがき より

人間の頭脳に潜入、秘密を探り出す特殊能力を持つ超戦士・精神ダイバーの活躍を描くシリーズ第一弾！
〈精神（サイコ）ダイバーとは人間の頭脳に潜入し、その秘密を探り出す特殊能力を持つ超戦士である〉過激派集団から大金を奪った文成仙吉（ふみなりせんきち）は、山中で闇の乱交儀式を目撃したため、巨大な獣人に襲われ指を食いちぎられた。一方、聖城高野山（こうやさん）で空海（くうかい）の即身仏（ミイラ）が盗まれ、精神ダイバー久門鳳介（くもんほうすけ）と密教術の達人美空（びくう）が謎を追うが、獣人が2人の前に…。（サイコダイバーシリーズ全1/12巻）

夏祭りにやって来た、裏染天馬と袴田柚乃たち風ヶ丘高の面々。たこ焼き、かき氷、水ヨーヨー、どの屋台で買い物しても、お釣りが五十円玉ばかりだったのはなぜ？

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.