Six

A must read for fans of Uketsu (Strange Pictures) and Sesuji (About a Place in the Kinki Region), an unnerving collection of six short stories that unsettle you in face of death. Placed 11th in the “Kono Horror ga Sugoi! ” list in Japanese literature in 2024. "I’m just scared. . . of falling into hell. "A certain roof-top amusement park on a certain department store. A stone monument by the mountain road. A 23 minutes, 45 seconds film. A guideline for cultivating plants. The corpse of a ghost. The sounds echoing through an elevator. As if peeking through a veil, the stories pile onto the next, evoking the most primal human fear. . . death.