A collection of novelistic one-shots from Monden Akiko. With most stories set in post-war Japan, this collection touches upon topics of desire, war, and humanity.

April 1919 - Chizuru, a girl who lost her voice as a child, is surrounded by a horrific murder case. Chizuru's older brother, an overprotective newspaper reporter, and her kind friend who she spends her afte...

The Caterpillar is an adaptation of the 1929 Edogawa Rampo short story of the same name. The Caterpillar is a haunting psychosexual tale of Lt. Sunaga, a disfigured and limbless veteran of WWI who returns ho...

Manga adaption of H. P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space" In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of Arkha...

Serge Battour is the son of a French viscount and a Romani prostitute, and despite his kind nature and academic talent, is shunned by his family and his peers due to the color of his skin. He begins to atten...

Azusa Wakaba, the daughter of Azusa Fumiko, famous film actress, jumps into the film industry with her beauty to find the truth behind her mother's mysterious suicide. Wakaba catches the eye of Murase Takayu...

Inside the village of Poe a mysterious noble family takes residence with their son Edgar and ill daughter Marybell. Edgar is quickly intrigued by Allan, the heir of a transportation company, who catches his ...

The setting: A boys' boarding school in Germany, sometime in the mid-20th century. One winter day, fourteen-year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death, immediately after mail...