On the surface, Ryota Miki, a middle schooler, seems to get along with his adoptive mother. But behind the scenes, she's terrified of her son's every move, and for good reason—he's secretly keeping track of her...

"Hey... will you still love me, even though I'm a former death row inmate?" Before her sentencing, Sawa couldn't stop thinking about her childhood friend, Itsuki. She had been executed for murder and was...

Painter Yukari Yohito will soon realize that despite all that he's been through, leaving his umbrella on a train will be the one thing that changes his life. Completely in tune with his paintings, Yukari is a...

Terumi Morgan bitterly accepts that he shouldn’t expect a lot from life. He just wants to meet his deadlines at work and watch his porn in peace. But then an unexpected sick day sends him on a collision course...

"Oh Lord Almighty, I thank you for another day of peace..." Fiona Roylia is the daughter of the Roylia family, the family that governs Geltz. She is extremely devout and loved by all. Her days are peaceful. But...

Sora, a middle school boy, is afraid of his mom's weird affection for him. She's usually a normal, kind mother, but that completely changes the second a girl comes near her son. Sora comes to suspect that his...

Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a...

When the hand that used to so lovingly hold Annette Rozenberg ends up being the one that causes the downfall of her family, Annette demands that Heiner Waldemar give her a divorce. But Heiner refuses, stating...

One day, Jio is horrified to witness his girlfriend, Miho, devouring human flesh. How could this be happening? He's struggling to understand the events that transpired when Miho killed his close buddy. Jio...

Tetsuo Tosu is a typical father whose biggest worries are his job and his rebellious daughter, Reika. That is until he finds a bruise on her face. His worst fears come true when he finds out she has a secret...

Hitoshi Arai is just an average college student with a mediocre life. During high school, he was bullied for being fat and got stressed and anxious easily. He had hoped that college would give him a fresh new...

One fateful night, Sunghoon, a music professor, and his family suffer a devastating accident. While their son, Hyunwoo, escapes relatively unscathed, his parents are not so lucky. Months later, Sunghoon wakes...

The story could basically be split into two halves. The main story is about Tamai Shiina, who is an energetic middle-school teenage girl. She visits her grandparent's over the summer where she runs into a very...

Collection of short stories including: • NejishikiA man gets bitten on the arm by a jelly fish on a village beach foreign to him. He sets off desperately searching for a doctor who can heal his bleeding veins.....

Short stories about two white cats who have no respect for others and are just plain cruel. Dark humor warning.

They look like us. They feed on us. They’re parasites – alien creatures with one directive: take human form via a host and destroy the human race from within. First seen in Hiroshi Iwaaki’s classic science...

No one would have ever guessed that nerdy-looking Seongbin Cha is actually Neon Mask, the internet hero popular for punishing violent, bullying teens on ViewTube. He won’t rest until he eradicates every last...

Kain Walker is an admired and appreciated policeman of New York by all his colleagues. By fright at disappointing his fellows and also being discovered, Kain hides that he is gay and refrains from any coherent...

Nezumi is a girl who was raised as a hitman by the yakuza and grew up not knowing human love. An ordinary young man, Ao, knows nothing. They fall in love and start to live together, but the evil hand is close...

Sato Tatsuhiro is a drug-addled "hikikomori" (a Japanese shut-in) who thinks a sinister organization, NHK (Nihon Hikikomori Kyoukai), is the cause of all his problems! He falls in love with a girl, Misaki, who...

Aya has a peaceful life with her faithful husband, Kazuma. She is proud to have a husband who takes care of her and she believes that she is the "happiest wife in the world". However, one day, she noticed a...

Baeksu’s brother has gone missing. In a manhunt to find him, Baeksu Kang encounters the night fishermen. Their prey isn’t fish, however -- it’s humans! Their favorite fishing spot? The Han River. Their last...

The imperial scribe Jurgen is devastated by the tragic death of his wife, Autilia. The perpetrator is none other than his closest friend, the crown prince, Sitri. Driven by obsession, Sitri’s ultimate goal is...

A DECADE-SPANNING JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS. Even as butterflies ominously proliferate in town, the rumor of a mysterious creature lurking in the tunnel behind the school spreads among the children. When the body...

Still in her early twenties, beautiful Toshiko Tomura has won the Akutagawa Prize for her story “The Book of Human Insects.” The great honor is not her first: she has previously won the New York Design Academy...