1. "Poison Notes" is a research essay on the history of Western culture with the theme of "poison".
2. "Fox Mei Ji" reinterprets six fantasy stories based on the scattered records of some legendary figures from Japan's Heian period to the Edo period. Shibusawa Tatsuhiko not only tells the classical stories of monsters, but also explains them from the perspective of modern concepts from time to time, making the classic and modern, magic and reality intertwined, full of strange and mysterious colors.
3. "Tatsuhiko no Kuni Kitan Collection": Shibusawa Tatsuhiko, a preacher of Western European heterodox culture, a standard-bearer of fantasy literature, and a master of dark aesthetics known for his enchanting and gorgeous world view, named his small study world "Tatsuhiko no Kuni".
4. "Museum of Strange Characters": Dashwood, the founder of the infamous "Hellfire Club"; Nostradamus, the great prophet who described the doomsday scene; Beaumont, the astonishing French cross-dressing knight... The most important weirdos in history are gathered in this book!
5. "Devil Phantom Chronicles" is a cultural note on the art of demon fantasy by Japanese cultural scholar and fantasy literature master Shibusawa Tatsuhiko. It contains nine rare chapters published in the magazine in 1961.
6. "The World in Walnuts" is a collection of cultural essays with mixed and interesting contents. It is a new starting point for the author's "image natural history" writing in the 1970s.
7. "Portraits of Heretics" is a collection of essays by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa focusing on famous "abnormal" figures in the history of Western culture. The author Tatsuhiko Shibusawa tries to clear up the fog of history, interrogate the cause and effect of the formation of these distorted personalities, and write about the loneliness and destruction of these heretics who are out of step with the times.
