Abstract

Finally, the long-awaited "Urban Legends" has appeared in the [Illustrated Encyclopedia] series! It's crazy! This is too crazy! Screams, grudges, whispered curses, 124 shocking Japanese urban legends. Get excited by the super-realistic illustrations! Darkness lurking in the city, a school stained with blood, dreams that should not be seen, a door to another world... The strange phenomena that change with the times are always targeting the gaps in your heart. The definitive compilation of urban legends told all over Japan! Introducing terrifying rumors that may suddenly happen one day close to you with super visual images. Full color, powerful illustrations! 240 pages with full ruby. The popular "Illustrated Encyclopedia" series

Author’s Information

Asazato Itsuki
Born in Hokkaido in 1990. Graduated from the Faculty of Letters at Hosei University in 2014. Majored in Japanese literature.
Currently working as a civil servant, he also collects and studies supernatural phenomena and monsters outside of his work.
His books include "Encyclopedia of Japan's Weird Modern Monsters" (Gentosha), "Encyclopedia of Modern Japanese Strange Things" (Kasama Shoin), "Supplementary Book to the Encyclopedia of Modern Japanese Strange Things" (Kasama Shoin), "Encyclopedia of Strange Stories about Historical Figures" (Gentosha), "Encyclopedia of Modern World Strange Things" (Kasama Shoin), and "Powerful! Terrifying Encyclopedia of Urban Legends" (Seitosha).