From the shrines in the snowy country of Hokkaido to the mist-locked hot spring towns in Kyushu, from the ancient houses in the Edo period to the rental houses in modern cities, hundreds of folk tales scattered across the Japanese archipelago are woven into a chilling web of cause and effect in this book. You will follow in the footsteps of travelers, hear the songs from the other side of Bon Night, bump into the fox-faced boy who leads the way on the mountain road, touch the resentful ghosts curled up in the ancient kimonos, and the fears that quietly grow in the gaps of daily life: the wind chimes in the apartment where you live alone always ring softly at three o'clock in the morning, the tea bowls of the old shops hold the tears of the past life, and the souls that will never return home are hidden behind the torii of the shrine.
These stories do not rely on straightforward gore, but use cold and restrained writing to closely intertwine the legends of resentful spirits, fusangshen, and earth-bound spirits with the obsession, guilt, and greed in human nature. Each ghost story is a memory buried by time. In the narrative with a sense of fatalism, you can still feel the chill that comes from the depths of folklore and is terrifying when you think about it even after closing the book.
