5分鐘後的意外結局：紅色惡夢

5分後に意外な結末

by Gakken Education (Editor), 学研教育出版 (Editor), 陳識中 (Translator)

30則各自獨立的極短篇故事
恐怖、感動、歡笑、淚水……
讓你完全享受「被騙的快感」！
看到最後才能知道真相的暢快閱讀體驗!!

本書除了原創作品外，還收錄了由日本和世界各地的小故事、都市傳說、名作小說、古典落語等改編而來的故事。每篇看到最後都會讓人忍不住發出「啊」的一聲，想回頭再重新看一遍故事！

〈敞開的窗〉
搬到鄉下別墅的弗朗頓前往拜訪鄰居薩普爾頓夫人時，發現客廳的落地窗終年敞開，彷彿在等待某人歸來。此時，窗外出現三道人影，究竟是歸來之人，還是……

〈猴爪〉
朋友從印度帶回的風乾猴爪，據說能讓擁有者實現三個願望，然而朋友卻視其為燙手山芋。欣喜收下的老夫婦許下第一個願望，不料卻是一連串惡夢的開始……

〈父親的時薪〉
男人每天下班後，妻子與五歲的兒子早已熟睡。某天深夜，男人打開家門發現兒子正在等他回家，並執拗地想得知父親的時薪。兒子一連串的怪異行為竟是為了……

192 pages, Paperback

First published December 3, 2013

About the author

Associated Names:
* Gakken Education (English)
* 学研教育出版 (Japanese)

Reviews

[Sofie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wouldn't recommend reading this book as anything but a learning resource. The stories are really short and the writing often uses what I'd call a cliché literary language. It should be a comfortable read at N2 level.

[Henri · Rating 3 out of 5]

第一个故事挺好。

[Sei · Rating 5 out of 5]

この本は、予想を裏切る展開と緊張感溢れるストーリーで、最後まで目が離せませんでした。

物語は、ほんの5分後に起こる出来事が大きな運命を変えるという独特の設定で進んでいきます。登場人物たちの思惑が絡み合い、誰が信頼できるのかが分からないまま進行します。その中でも「赤い悪夢」と呼ばれる要素が、物語の緊迫感を一層高めています。

結末は予測できないほど意外で、最後まで読む価値があります。非常に引き込まれる内容で、続きが気になって仕方がありません。謎解きやサスペンスが好きな人にはぜひ読んでほしい一冊です。

[Guts · Rating 2 out of 5]

A collection of short stories with a twist ending that's suppose to surprise you or catch you off guard. Unfortunately, if you have been using the internet long enough, you'd have heard or read most of the short stories in here already in a much shorter form like an interesting facebook status or a forwarded mail.

The book seems to collect many of those very very short interesting stories from the west and add spices to it by making it longer. But if you've read those already, it's so obvious that they are unnecessarily extended in order to misdirect you so you'll be surprised by the ending. There are some good stories in here, but I found the poor attempt to extend the story boring. It isn't fun when you bet everything on the twist and the reader already know what the twist will be by the second paragraph of the story.

[Nicholas Driscoll · Rating 3 out of 5]

To practice my Japanese, I read this book of short stories. I read several other Japanese books this year, too, but apparently I can't add books anymore on Goodreads, so I can't add all of them. This one was a bunch of translated short stories, including things like The Monkey's Paw and other familiar tales, and some I was unfamiliar with. One I vividly remembered reading when I was a kid, so it was really fun to reread it now as an adult in another language.

[Hiu Ying · Rating 4 out of 5]

漂書已記錄/漂出2021。