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Sweet Dreams: Japanese Horror Novels

I’m writing this piece as I watch FX’s The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.Fet is tossing Strigoi into the spinning blades of a digging machine and those squirmy white worms are flying all over the place. And beside me is a list of books I need to pick up in October, one of which …

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Summer, Fireworks and My Corpse

Zoo introduced me to the brilliance that is Otsuichi, and Summer, Fireworks and My Corpse has me on the brink of becoming an Otsuichi-addict. This second Otsuichi collection from the Haikasoru line-up published by Viz Media features his debut and award winning story Summer, Fireworks and My Corpse, the tale of a young girl murdered during summer vacation in a fit …

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