Status Updates From 巷說百物語

柳女 - This one was very fun, probably the most entertaining story in the book yet. Honestly though I do feel like Kyougoku's better at longform storytelling, these stories are TOLD in a fun way but ultimately just feel a bit repetitive in their subject matter and shallow as narratives. I do hope the next books in the series are a step-up, esp considering the stories seem to become more connected.

I COULD FINISH TOMORROW I THINK ...

Read 塩の長司. Another decent story!

Read 芝右衛門狸. The truth behind this one was pretty boring BUT the road there was one of the most fun ones yet. My read of this book as being a grisly romanticist historical fiction anthology with a mystery-like flavor to it keeps proving itself correct, it feels like.

Read 舞首. I was a bit skeptical of this one at first, but the narrative unraveled in a twisty, fun way, with the formula being switched up a bit once more. I feel like there's a repeated "twist" between this one and 白蔵主 which is a bit lame, but as long as it doesn't become a series staple I'll be willing to look past it.

Finished 白蔵主. Really good story. I feel like this book's stories aren't quite mysteries and are instead closer to contrived historic tragedies, a bit like some of Akutagawa's stuff. The structure of the stories and the prose is where this book really shines so far, but man, does it shine.

Yeah I'm thinking this book rips

小豆洗い read. Very interesting first story, feels like there's a lot to be done with this format

Guess what. I can't spend more than ~2 months without reading a Kyougoku book now. Good thing that I own around 30 books of his.

One story to go, and then it's time to revisit the awesome anime adaptation Requiem From The Darkness - the perfect series for this time of year 🎃 Kyogoku is so good it's crazy that more of his work isn't translated...

3 down, 4 to go. It's great but so difficult to read the print @_@

I added this Amazon Japan print-on-demand edition - the seven stories individually released for Kindle in English are gathered within and will make fine October reading. This author is in a league of his own.

I am using a magnifying glass because the font size is very stingy... with this in mind it's possible I'll still be reading next Halloween XD

最近看了許多喜歡故弄玄虛，最後卻都解釋得不清不楚、越看頭越大的懸疑文，突然覺得這本百物語真好！目前看完第三個故事，三個故事都解釋的清楚明白、不留懸念，是本讀完能夠安心睡覺的故事集！😆

A Japanese monster book for Halloween reading :)