Kowabana: 'True' Japanese Scary Stories from Around the Internet Volume One

A young man walks along a dark country road while his father carries his brother's dead body to a nearby temple. In the light of his torch he spots someone walking slowly ahead of them. Someone, he discovers, wearing the exact same clothes as his dead brother is right now. A woman prepares to throw herself from the roof of her apartment building. A young man appears, asking her a series of odd and often crude questions. He's not there to try and stop her, or so he says, but what is he really and what does he truly want? "Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet" is a collection of anonymous horror tales collected and translated from the occult forum on the Japanese website '2chan' and originally published on my website Kowabana.net. Presented as true stories that really happened to the author these are tales of Japanese ghosts, murder, suicide, revenge, cursed objects and other strange happenings. These are comparable to the Western phenomenon of the 'creepypasta' but with a Japanese twist. In this book you'll find 111 translated stories set across Japan. From the rice fields of the countryside to cramped apartments in big cities, public toilets and old abandoned buildings, shrines in the middle of nowhere and crowded trains full of perhaps not just people, here you'll find horror unique to Japan and in a way only they know how to do.