Mayonaka no tazune bi to
Translated title: Midnight Visitor
Author: Tunekawa, Koutarou
Genre: Horror
Year: 2023 | Pages: 336 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 85565
Aki is a young girl orphaned by the earthquake who has lost her ability to speak. While moving from one vacant house to another, she meets an old fortune teller and they end up living together. The old woman calls the girl an 'angel' and asks her to retrieve something that has been sealed in a cave in a rock.
When Aki arrives at a place in her search, she hears the voices of the dead... Disasters, accidents, and unfathomable malice suddenly shatter her peaceful days. Aki, who has grown into a detective searching for people, leads her on a modern-day tale of those who are swallowed up in the middle of the night
Kyoto Gion Momokichian's Amakara Cho
Native title: 京都祇園もも吉庵のあまから帖８
Translated title: Amakaracho from Momokichian in Gion, Kyoto
Series: Volume 8
Author: Siganai, Sasuhiro
Genre: Family Saga / Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 320 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88609
Gion, Kyoto. At the end of Hanamikoji Street is Momokichi-an, a sweet shop.
Momokichi, the proprietress and former geisha who runs the shop, is visited by people with all sorts of troubles.
The hardships of a family who begs the taxi driver Mitsuko to 'follow the taxi in front', the reformation of a bank loan officer who learns how to 'read people' from the way they eat tea and sweets, and the quick thinking of a female secretary who changes the atmosphere of a contentious meeting...
This is a heartwarming story in which Momokichi's words gently comfort the people who gather in Gion, experiencing both joy and sorrow.
This is the 8th volume of the popular series
Gokuraku ni ita ru imimon
Native title: 極楽に至る忌門
Translated title: The Gate to Paradise
Author: Park, Ashika
Genre: Horror
Year: 2024 | Pages: 340 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88607
Deep in the mountains of Shikoku, a small village is home to a strange, cherished Buddhist statue. Hayato, who travels from Tokyo to accompany his friend Takumi on a visit home, feels uneasy about the cold demeanor of the villagers.
Takumi's grandmother warmly welcomes them, and during a pleasant dinner featuring a heartfelt meal, Takumi's face changes color the moment he hears her say, 'I've brought the Buddha closer.' That night, Takumi disappears, and Hayato finds himself embroiled in a series of strange events.
A woman who left the village for a job in Tokyo and returned after the death of a relative discovers a terrifying truth. A boy visiting his grandfather's house during summer vacation encounters a terrifying supernatural phenomenon.
Through a series of novellas spanning three eras - the Showa, Heisei, and Reiwa eras - the terrifying fate of the land and the true nature of the unexpected supernatural events, which even the most powerful oracle, Mononobe Narikiyo, was unable to stop, are revealed. This is a newly written work commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Horror Bunko series
Onnagira i dokuta no kageki na kyuuai
Native title: 女嫌いドクターの過激な求愛
Translated title: The Radical Courtship of a Misogynistic Doctor
Author: Katou, Rie
Genre: Romance
Year: 2024 | Pages: 288 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88590
Rino is a plain secretary who wants to live a stable life. However, after her husband is seduced, she becomes desperate and expresses her desire to lose her virginity. She ends up spending the night with her boss, Hiiragi, a cosmetic surgeon and heir to a wealthy family, who says, 'It could be me', and he says, 'Fall in love with me for the rest of your life. I'll never let you regret it'. Rino thought that this relationship with him, who is of a different social status than her, would end there, but he ends up doting on Hiiragi and Rino and doting on them...!?
City Pop Tampen Shu
Native title: シティポップ短篇集
Translated title: City Pop Short Story Collection
Author: Kataoka, Yosio
Genre: Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 328 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88611
The 80's, when city pop was born. What was Japanese 'literature' doing in the same period? Behind the pop music revived by fans on social networking sites around the world lies the world of urban literature, which was born out of the same historical circumstances and developed in a similarly original Japanese way. It was a literature based on real urban life, but idealized behind a veil of fiction, fictionalizing the 'city' and 'nowhere' in the writers' dreams. The '9 Stories' in this book are forgotten Japanese urban novels that ran parallel to the City Pop Era. A gentle wind is still blowing there today
Su mise go no nie
Native title: すみせごの贄
Translated title: The Sumisego Sacrifice
Author: Sawamura, Ichi
Genre: Horror
Year: 2024 | Pages: 304 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88606
Shoki: Shota, a second-year junior high school student who has stopped going to school due to bullying, accompanies Kon Nozaki, a colleague of his father's, on a research assignment in Shiga Prefecture. There's a local custom of placing a statue of Shoki on the gatepost, and this unique four-armed figure is called 'Tanaware Shoki.' While researching, Shota witnesses an eerie shadow, and that night, he is attacked by a silent figure. Is there something here?
Saturiku no kyousikyoku
Translated title: Rhapsody of Slaughter
Author: Nakayama, Nanasato
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2023 | Pages: 256 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 85546
The worst heinous crime of the Reiwa era has occurred at a luxury nursing home. Reiji Mikoshiba, a lawyer riddled with a bad reputation, volunteers to defend the despicable suspect, but what shocking plan is he secretly plotting?
Yomei 1 niti no boku ga, kimi ni tumu gu monogatari
Translated title: A Story I'll Tell You with Only One Day Left to Live
Author: Kitomo, Na
Genre: Social Novel
Year: 2023 | Pages: 320 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 85525
I will never give up on tomorrow, and I will never give up on you. My memories only last one day. One morning, novelist Kishimoto Akira learns a shocking truth from one of his own writings.
Due to an accident that left him with anterograde amnesia, he has forgotten everything that happened yesterday. The death of memory is the same as the death of a novelist. In his despair, he meets a woman named Tsubasa, and in search of hope, he begins to write novels again...
This is a story of never giving up on tomorrow
Mattingu
Native title: マッチング
Translated title: Matching
Author: Eiji, Uchida
Genre: Thriller / Mystery
Year: 2024 | Pages: 288 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 88605
While Wanka is fulfilled by her work as a wedding planner, she is shy when it comes to romance, so at the urging of a colleague, she reluctantly signs up for a dating app. From that day on, her life changes completely. When she matches with Tomu and meets up, the man who shows up is a gloomy man, completely different from his profile. Terrified, Wanka seeks help from Kageyama, a programmer at the company that runs the dating app and a business partner.
At the same time, a series of tragic incidents occur in which couples who have 'married through an app' are brutally murdered. The 'true faces' of the people surrounding Wanka are revealed one after another, and the evil hand of the incidents closes in on Wanka. Who is her friend, and who is her enemy? A new type of suspense thriller that depicts the fear hidden in encounters!
Hakugin no touboushiya koubunshiya
Translated title: Silver Fugitive
Author: Tinen, Mikizin
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2023 | Pages: 320 | Origin: JAP | BA Seq Num: 85564
The world has come to an end after a deadly virus outbreak with a 95% mortality rate. Those who survive the infection have become Valians, people with the supernatural ability to turn their eyes silvery white.
Misaki Junya, a doctor working in the emergency department, is contacted by Yu, a Valiant girl being pursued by the Public Security Bureau, who tells him a plan.
Junya then becomes embroiled in their fight for survival. A top-notch entertainment novel that will keep you coming back for more!
