Kowabana: 'True' Japanese scary stories from around the internet: Volume Ten

by Tara A. Devlin

You ready for more horror?

A curse so powerful it has lasted generations. How many more must die before it can finally be ended?

An old village custom that has held up for hundreds of years. Nothing could go wrong if we don’t follow the rules… right?

An escalator that runs late at night when nobody is around. Is it really empty, or…?

In ‘True’ Japanese scary stories from around the internet Vol. 10 you’ll find over 50 brand new creepypastas from Japan. From terrifying curses to abandoned shrines, frightful ghouls to vengeful spirits, cursed items to powerful gods, the Kowabana series is dedicated to bringing you the best horror, thriller, suspense, and supernatural stories you’ve never seen before.

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Genres: Horror

390 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 4, 2022

About the author

Tara A. Devlin studied Japanese at the University of Queensland before moving to Japan in 2005. She lived in Matsue, the birthplace of Japanese ghost stories, for 10 years, where her love for Japanese horror really grew. And with Izumo, the birthplace of Japanese mythology, just a stone’s throw away, she was never too far from the mysterious. You can find her collection of horror and fantasy writings at taraadevlin.com and translations of Japanese horror at kowabana.net.

Reviews

[Glen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another collection of Japanese ghost stories and such. This one has a section about parallel worlds.

[Katie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like all of the stories in this anthology series, each was hit or miss. These are translations from online forums and such places, so the narrative quality varies quite a bit. The author is a little too faithful to the source material. I would love it if the author instead uses the best of these as inspiration for novel stories.