It's an entertaining and well crafted spooky short stories collection. The author teased us with the possibility that 'stories-within-story' setting and these stories might be 'real-haunting' experiences from readers. Maybe it's true, or maybe it's all made-ups, anyway it's still an enjoyable, spooky and creative read.
PS: the story about this 'crazy old man' who keeps murmuring about the terrible experience he had once gone through as a child, and the story about this young woman home alone at night in an empty house with this 'mysterious aunt who had fallen ill', are really freaking scary!
This was my first Mitsuda Shinzo book, but I quickly realized he is a writer who tries to bring out the horror of his texts out into the readers reality. It does get a bit spooky especially when I found out it was already raining when I read the warning part about how I shouldn't read it on a rainy day. Ha ha you got me!!! Overall very easy- to read Japanese spooky short stories- well woven into this big frame of a novelist point of view.