#japanese horror books

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Silent Hill: Dying Inside

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My horror JRPG collection!

…can you tell I like Corpse Party

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I don't know how to describe it, but something about Edward Gorey and Junji Ito both going slightly off-brand and illustrating a whimsical book about cats is so special to me

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Books I always forget about cause they are on my kindle:

Am I the only one like this? I always forget what I have when its a digital collection. I've been collecting since I bought my kindle. I read heaps on my kindle. But I just keep adding more and more to my collection. So here's a list of books a want to read that's on there. If anyone has any feed back or recommendations about my list, please leave a comment! Also if you decide to look into the books on this list, be aware some are 18+ and have TW.

Vampires: Hollow - Legend (Series) Tethered (series) Court (started) The southern book clubs guide to slaying vampires (Started) Twilight (series) Court of the vampire queen (40%) From blood and ash Bitten and bound Vampire academy Die for you (aus) The vampire in the bookstore Bound to the vampires Empire of the vampire - Empire of the damned (series) Feathers so vicious (series) House of crimson hearts Shade of a blood moon blood oath - shadow heart - twisted soul (series)

Manga: Somethings wrong with us (Manga) Say i love you (Manga)

Contemporary/contemporary romance/dark romance ect: Den of vipers The predator The ritual Things we never got over The virgin suicides Ninth house - Hell bent (series) God of Malice Hate mail Hate (JAMES) Bridget jones diary Hunting adeline (Started) Kiss the sky The seven husbands of evelyn hugo Moments of mayhem Lights out Mine (AK ROSE) Falling leaves Twisted friction Saint - sinner - priest - midnight mass (series) Love of my after life Theif (MASSERY)

Fantasy/fantsy romance: The spell shop Yumi and the nightmare painter Gideon the ninth Kingdom of blood and betrayal (35%) - A kingdom of venom and vows (series) Heir of the beast (series) Whispers of the deep The crimson moth The orchid and the owl (started) The song of the marked A court of silver flames (started) Half a soul (series) The god and the gumiho A discovery of witches Psycho fae - psycho shifters - (series) Daughter of the moon goddess (30%) - Heart of the sun warrior Powerless The liars crown Forged by malice - bonded by thorns - Woven by gold (series) Heaven officials blessings The dragons bride Dark heir - dark rise (series) Legends and lattes Lightlark - Nightbane (ugh) The very secret society of irregular witches One dark window - two twisted crowns (series) The invisible life of addie larue One little nightmare Daughter of no worlds The unmaking of June farrow Feather so black Songbird of the sorrows What is dark within me (series) A dream so wicked - Sleeping beauty retelling Of darkness and ruination

Ghosty/Hauntings/Spirits/Halloweenie ect: When stars come out Black silk and Sympathy (Aus) Love letters to a serial killer Good girl bad blood (started) - as good as dead (series) House of hollow Chlorine Carving for cara Her soul to take (series) A soul to keep The curse of the flores women The haunting of blackwych grange Leather and lark Starling House A deadly education Spells for forgetting Rouge In the clearing (aus) In a dark mirror Creations captive

Japanese stories: 夏物語 (Breasts and Eggs JP ver) The full moon coffee shop If cats disappeared from the world (ENG/JP) Conveniance store woman Butter コーヒーが冷めないうちに - 川口 俊和 Days at the morisaki bookshop (series)

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actually I'm kinda surprised a lot of people don't know about the extent of japanese war crimes and I think thats concerning when it results in westerners like, making excuses for modern japanese nationalism? its a bizarre mix of orientalism and infantalization and its crazy just how fast that history is forgotten. the subject is something I've always been privy to but I watched a really interesting video recently about anime and its relationship to japanese soft power thats kept it on my mind.

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"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost." -No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai

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Book cover I made for the anthology "O Salto da Aranha" by Larissa Prado.

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[swordmouse]

Just read Small Gods of Calamity and it was SO GOOD

This book is emotionally devastating in all the right ways. I loved it so much!! The magic system is so cool and the characters are fantastic. It's also one of the very few books I've read with a canonically ace main character, which is always nice. You should definitely read it if you're into urban fantasy, mysteries, horror, or Korean and Japanese folklore.

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Have you read...

Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan - where it then proceeded to become a runaway bestseller - Battle Royale is a Lord of the Flies for the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world. Made into a controversial hit movie of the same name, Battle Royale is already a contemporary Japanese pulp classic, now available for the first time in the English language.

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“Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.” ― Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

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Ring (1991) by Koji Suzuki

Cover art by Chip Kidd

Vertical Inc, March 2003

A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers die one after another of heart failure.

Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan tokyo teeming with modern society's fears to a rural Japan—a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic—haunted by the past. His attempt to solve the tape's mystery before it's too late—for everyone—assumes an increasingly deadly urgency. Ring is a chillingly told horror story, a masterfully suspenseful mystery, and post-modern trip.

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From the mind of Japan’s “queen of horror manga” comes a short story collection sure to put a grin on your face and send a chill down your spine. Survive six of the author’s hand-picked scares, plus original commentary from the author. Fans of Junji Ito, Kazuo Umezu, and Mermaid Saga, your collection isn't complete until you're very afraid of Kanako Inuki! JAPAN'S “QUEEN OF HORROR MANGA” RETURNS! The six hair-raising stories selected for this collection feature an array of unnerving characters and scenarios brought to life in Inuki’s signature art style, in the tradition of Junji Ito, Kazuo Umezu, Shintaro Kago, and Junko Mizuno.

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review: in the miso soup by ryu murakami (1997)

192 pages / started nov 5th 2024 / finished nov 8th 2024

spoiler free!!

Summary: It's just before New Year, and Frank, an American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on a guided tour of Tokyo's nightlife. But, Frank's behaviour is so odd that Kenji begins to entertain a horrible suspicion: his client may in fact have murderous desires. Although Kenji is far from innocent himself, he unwillingly descends with Frank into an inferno of evil, from which only his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Jun, can possibly save him.

I picked this book up from the store on a whim a few days ago, mostly because of how cool the cover looked. I went into this book completely blind, and I am so glad I did. I got through the book in only three sittings, which is a rare from me. This is my first book by Murakami, and for sure not my last.

Kenji is such an interesting protagonist, and his relationship with Frank is what really drove the story for me and got me invested. The pacing within the first half of the novel was fantastic, and it really set you up with the fear that something awful was always around the corner. The eventual awful something (which i won't spoil) was very much worth the payoff, and honestly completely shocked me even though I was still expecting it.

The novel really paints a gritty, unglamorous portrait of Japan which isn't often seen in literature, something I believe is a staple in murakamis work, but I'll have to fact check that. The setting of kabuki-cho is a character in and of itself.

Frank is such an incredibly interesting character that I don't think I could explain it without telling you what he does. Once you read the book, I think you'll understand what I mean.

The third act was a little bit monologue-y, and some of the language is a bit outdated however. If you are sensitive to violence towards and the exploitation of sex workers, you may not be able to stomach this. Kenji is not an innocent character, he is well aware of how exploitative the sex industry is yet he still uses it for his own financial gain, not even mentioning his underage girlfriend. I believe thats what makes the story even more compelling. The more Kenji falls deeper down the rabbit hole of madness Frank leads him down, you start to doubt if he will make it out or not.

Critiques aside, I would 100% read this again and I would definitely recommend this to my horror loving friends and family! If you like psychological thrillers, you'll love this!

7/10

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