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Dark Lanterns
A city of 12 million people. 12 months of the year. 4 seasons. 15 short stories. In these spine-chilling tales we meet 15 residents of modern Tokyo; businesspeople, high-school students, laborers, foreign exchange students, chefs, gangsters, down-and-outs...
Each of them will encounter one of the Yohkai - the supernatural creatures immortalized in Japanese myths, legends and folk tales. Some of them will survive the experience. Some of them will not.
All of them will be changed forever.
Each of them will encounter one of the Yohkai - the supernatural creatures immortalized in Japanese myths, legends and folk tales. Some of them will survive the experience. Some of them will not.
All of them will be changed forever.
145 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 8, 2013
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March 16, 2013
Eerie amalgam of the mundane and the ethereal
Dark Lantern is a collection of 15 creepy tales where Japanese folklore re-manifests in modern life. Each story builds upon the others to reveal an intangible presence of spirits who walk among us every day. You might only steal a glimpse of one from the corner of your eye, or hear a unearthly whisper. You might only feel a chill as you lay in bed at night, but when all the wrong signs align, you will know they are here.
This book is poetic and very smartly done in the way it weaves ghost stories with situations in society that are truly unsettling. In parts it peels back normality to reveal hidden or ignored truths about life and death. It's also flavored with an interesting tour of Japanese culture.
I don't want to give away too much about the stories, but here is a cryptic peak of what you'll find inside...
A sushi den of the living dead. A body-conscious tween intertwined with the Earth. A homeless ghost of guilt. A grisly subway situation. A bureaucratic afterlife. A discarded map leading to a grave encounter. A re-resuscitated urban myth. A landfill to paradise. An exorcism for the horrors of war. A lesson not to trust the caw of a crow. A dream-blurred consciousness that becomes a nightmare. The siren call of pachinko. Fuji trees bearing strange fruit.
There is an illusive quality to the unexplained encounters in this ebook and you are left to finish them in your own imagination. You may also detect a puzzle between the lines begging to be solved.
Who knows what you'll discover by the light of the Dark Lantern?
Dark Lantern is a collection of 15 creepy tales where Japanese folklore re-manifests in modern life. Each story builds upon the others to reveal an intangible presence of spirits who walk among us every day. You might only steal a glimpse of one from the corner of your eye, or hear a unearthly whisper. You might only feel a chill as you lay in bed at night, but when all the wrong signs align, you will know they are here.
This book is poetic and very smartly done in the way it weaves ghost stories with situations in society that are truly unsettling. In parts it peels back normality to reveal hidden or ignored truths about life and death. It's also flavored with an interesting tour of Japanese culture.
I don't want to give away too much about the stories, but here is a cryptic peak of what you'll find inside...
A sushi den of the living dead. A body-conscious tween intertwined with the Earth. A homeless ghost of guilt. A grisly subway situation. A bureaucratic afterlife. A discarded map leading to a grave encounter. A re-resuscitated urban myth. A landfill to paradise. An exorcism for the horrors of war. A lesson not to trust the caw of a crow. A dream-blurred consciousness that becomes a nightmare. The siren call of pachinko. Fuji trees bearing strange fruit.
There is an illusive quality to the unexplained encounters in this ebook and you are left to finish them in your own imagination. You may also detect a puzzle between the lines begging to be solved.
Who knows what you'll discover by the light of the Dark Lantern?
October 4, 2021
I love these stories about Japanese myths and stories. I loved them all! 15 different people encounter this mythical monster and how each survives, or doesn't. One of the best books I've read in a while.
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