Abstract

A truly terrifying and utterly hopeless "village horror" with no escape. -- Asamiya Unga
I've finished reading it, but a certain "sound" keeps ringing in my head. -- Kengo Kamijo

From the author of "Shikei ni Itaru Yamai (The Disease Leading to the Death Penalty)" and the "Addiction" series .
A full-length horror novel that will send chills down the spine.

Tomobe, a university student, is asked by Professor Kagata, a social folklore professor, to stay in a remote mountain village during his summer vacation and organize true ghost stories submitted to a radio program. There are two things to be careful of: he will be staying in a house where a family was brutally murdered in the 1950s, and he must not drink the water or eat the food grown there. A stone that keeps returning no matter how many times it is returned, a child in a white kimono guarding the shrine, the buzzing of wings that never stops... As Tomobe continues organizing, he gets closer to the gruesome truth hidden in this village.

Author’s Information

Born in Niigata Prefecture in 1972. In 2012, Kushiki won the Reader's Choice Award at the 19th Japan Horror Novel Awards for "Haunted Campus." In the same year, she won the 25th Shosetsu Subaru Newcomer Award for "Red and White." Her 2024 novel "The Box of Deadly Wax" was nominated for the 27th Haruhiko Oyabu Award. Her other works include "Shuchakusha (The Obsessed)," the "Haunted Campus" series, the "Addiction" series, "Shikei ni Itaru Yamai (Disease Leading to the Death Penalty), and many more.