Ishi no Yobu Ie

Description

Collection of Kuroda Minoru's older manga from the 50s-70s.

According to the afterword, except for "The House that Calls Stone," the collection is made up of older works. The works are from a wide range of eras, from obviously old-fashioned works ("From the Two-Way Mirror…") to works that seem to have been published in girls' manga magazines ("Hair Mairi" and "Wax Doll"), to works that are too chaotic ("I Saw It!!").

A family is spending a week's vacation at a gorgeous villa. However, after the second daughter Aya climbs onto a rock in the backyard, things start to seem strange, and the eldest daughter Yumi sees a ghostly face in the high window. Furthermore, that night there is a mysterious power outage and strange voices echo from the electrified rock.

The next day, they ask Junichi, the son of the real estate agent, to check on the electrical system and, just to be safe, they decide to have him stay with them during their stay at the villa. Junichi takes Yumi out to the backyard and explains the reason for the strange phenomenon. The trip was the work of a spirit that is attached to the rock, and her father and Aya have already been possessed.

Taking advantage of the spirit's fear of electricity, Junichi creates a device and entrusts the switch to Yumi, but...