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About a Place in the Kinki Region

by Sesuji ...

Translated by Michael Blaskowsky ...

PLEASE READ TO THE END AND CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION.My friend is missing. Before he disappeared, he was working on a magazine about the paranormal—his first real job as an editor. With almost no budget, he resorted to digging through back issues and unused research material, looking for inspiration. As he did, a terrifying truth began to emerge about a certain place in the Kinki ... Read more

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PLEASE READ TO THE END AND CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION.My friend is missing. Before he disappeared, he was working on a magazine about the paranormal—his first real job as an editor. With almost no budget, he resorted to digging through back issues and unused research material, looking for inspiration. As he did, a terrifying truth began to emerge about a certain place in the Kinki
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About a Place in the Kinki Region

by Sesuji ...

Unabridged

5 hours 51 min

PLEASE READ TO THE END AND CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION.My friend is missing. Before he disappeared, he was working on a magazine about the paranormal—his first real job as an editor. With almost no budget, he resorted to digging through back issues and unused research material, looking for inspiration. As he did, a terrifying truth began to emerge about a certain place in the Kinki ... Read more

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PLEASE READ TO THE END AND CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION.My friend is missing. Before he disappeared, he was working on a magazine about the paranormal—his first real job as an editor. With almost no budget, he resorted to digging through back issues and unused research material, looking for inspiration. As he did, a terrifying truth began to emerge about a certain place in the Kinki
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Bone Ash

by Tow Ubukata ...

Narrated by Alan Peterson ...

Unabridged

12 hours 16 min

Mitsuhiro Matsunaga is an investor relations manager at a large development firm that’s currently in the process of constructing a new high-rise building. After claims surface online of fires breaking out, illness spreading, and human bones unearthed at the site, he ventures there himself to find out whether there’s any truth to the rumors. During his search, he detects an eerie dryness, and the ... Read more

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Mitsuhiro Matsunaga is an investor relations manager at a large development firm that’s currently in the process of constructing a new high-rise building. After claims surface online of fires breaking out, illness spreading, and human bones unearthed at the site, he ventures there himself to find out whether there’s any truth to the rumors. During his search, he detects an eerie dryness, and the
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Strange Buildings

A Novel

by Uketsu ...

Narrated by Andrew Grace ...

Unabridged

6 hours 54 min

From the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a mesmerizing novel of eleven strange buildings and one terrible secret.A lonely hut in the woods.A murder house.A hidden chamber.A mysterious shrine.A home in flames.A nightmarish prison. . . .Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle. Look closely . . . and you'll see that ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a mesmerizing novel of eleven strange buildings and one terrible secret.A lonely hut in the woods.A murder house.A hidden chamber.A mysterious shrine.A home in flames.A nightmarish prison. . . .Each of the buildings in this book tells a chilling story. Each one is part of a puzzle. Look closely . . . and you'll see that
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Strange Buildings

A Novel

by Uketsu ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Uketsu’s strange riddles are chilling and addictive" - R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and YellowfaceFrom the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a new unsettling mystery—eleven strange buildings, each with its own twisted floor plan and eerie backstory, and a terrible secret that connects them all... ... Read more

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Uketsu’s strange riddles are chilling and addictive" - R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and YellowfaceFrom the bestselling author of Strange Houses and Strange Pictures comes a new unsettling mystery—eleven strange buildings, each with its own twisted floor plan and eerie backstory, and a terrible secret that connects them all...
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The Clock House Murders

by Yukito Ayatsuji ...

Translated by Ho-Ling Wong ...

Series series The Bizarre House Mysteries
**A deviously clever, locked room puzzle mystery from the celebrated Japanese author of The Decagon House Murders that’s perfect for fans of Uketsu’s Strange HousesBrilliant detective Shimada Kiyoshi must save a team of paranormal investigators, trapped in an abandoned house, as they are picked off one-by-one!**Rumor has it that the mysterious Clock House—a remote mansion built by notorious ... Read more

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**A deviously clever, locked room puzzle mystery from the celebrated Japanese author of The Decagon House Murders that’s perfect for fans of Uketsu’s Strange HousesBrilliant detective Shimada Kiyoshi must save a team of paranormal investigators, trapped in an abandoned house, as they are picked off one-by-one!**Rumor has it that the mysterious Clock House—a remote mansion built by notorious
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Strange Houses

A Novel

by Uketsu ...

Translated by Jim Rion ...

“Deliciously unsettling and refreshingly unique, Strange Houses will lure you in and keep you captive with every clever twist.” —Kristen Perrin, New York Times bestselling author of How to Solve Your Own MurderFrom the bestselling author of the wildly inventive Strange Pictures and a phenomenon in Japan—unnatural layouts, trap doors, windowless rooms— a sinister conspiracy is concealed within a ... Read more

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“Deliciously unsettling and refreshingly unique, Strange Houses will lure you in and keep you captive with every clever twist.” —Kristen Perrin, New York Times bestselling author of How to Solve Your Own MurderFrom the bestselling author of the wildly inventive Strange Pictures and a phenomenon in Japan—unnatural layouts, trap doors, windowless rooms— a sinister conspiracy is concealed within a
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Greedy

A Novel

by Callie Kazumi ...

**“A deliciously twisted thriller that blends culinary obsession with moral horror . . . This novel savors excess, class, and complicity . . . and leaves you squirming.”—Dua Lipa’s Service95What would you do for a seat at the table?**They will kill me soon, Edward Cook thinks. And when the Yakuza are unable to collect what he owes, Ed realizes, theyʼll go after his wife and child next. Broke, ... Read more

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**“A deliciously twisted thriller that blends culinary obsession with moral horror . . . This novel savors excess, class, and complicity . . . and leaves you squirming.”—Dua Lipa’s Service95What would you do for a seat at the table?**They will kill me soon, Edward Cook thinks. And when the Yakuza are unable to collect what he owes, Ed realizes, theyʼll go after his wife and child next. Broke,
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Strange Pictures

A Novel

by Uketsu ...

Translated by Jim Rion ...

A BARNES AND NOBLE BEST BOOK OF 2025“Uketsu’s strange riddles are chilling and addictive – I couldn’t put it down.” —R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface“Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever. Seemingly unconnected stories tie themselves into a complicated knot, which Uketsu masterfully unravels.”—G. T. Karber, author of the national bestseller <em... ... Read more

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A BARNES AND NOBLE BEST BOOK OF 2025“Uketsu’s strange riddles are chilling and addictive – I couldn’t put it down.” —R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface“Delightfully macabre and fiendishly clever. Seemingly unconnected stories tie themselves into a complicated knot, which Uketsu masterfully unravels.”—G. T. Karber, author of the national bestseller <em...
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How to Hold Someone In Your Heart

A Novel

by Mizuki Tsujimura ...

Translated by Yuki Tejima ...

Series series A Lost Souls Novel
Book Two of the Lost Souls SeriesThe much-anticipated follow-up novel to the instant national bestseller Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon picks up seven years later with go-between Ayumi, a young man caught between the demands of everyday life and his extraordinary gift: reuniting the living with the dead.Ayumi has a rare and mysterious ability, inherited from his grandmother. During a full moon ... Read more

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Book Two of the Lost Souls SeriesThe much-anticipated follow-up novel to the instant national bestseller Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon picks up seven years later with go-between Ayumi, a young man caught between the demands of everyday life and his extraordinary gift: reuniting the living with the dead.Ayumi has a rare and mysterious ability, inherited from his grandmother. During a full moon
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Grace

an edge-of-your-seat atmospheric horror novel from the author of The Watchers

by A.M. Shine ...

SHE ESCAPED ONCE.NOW IT WANTS HER BACK.Everyone living on the island feels it. There are no visitors anymore. No children. No one willing to set foot there. Then Grace arrives.She's come to learn the truth about her birth parents and, in her search for answers, she soon feels the presence too – something lurking beneath the surface.The community is secretive, but one thing is clear: they are ... Read more

$8.99 USD

SHE ESCAPED ONCE.NOW IT WANTS HER BACK.Everyone living on the island feels it. There are no visitors anymore. No children. No one willing to set foot there. Then Grace arrives.She's come to learn the truth about her birth parents and, in her search for answers, she soon feels the presence too – something lurking beneath the surface.The community is secretive, but one thing is clear: they are
... Read more
Hunger

A Novel

by Choi Jin-young ...

Translated by Soje ...

A word-of-mouth phenomenon turned best-selling cult classic in Korea, Hunger is a visceral, psychologically daring novel that reveals how love and money shape, wound, and consume us.“A feast for the literary senses.”—Anton Hur, Judge of the International Booker PrizeOn an ordinary afternoon, a woman sees her partner murdered in the street. Time freezes. She lifts his body from the pavement, ... Read more

$10.99 USD

A word-of-mouth phenomenon turned best-selling cult classic in Korea, Hunger is a visceral, psychologically daring novel that reveals how love and money shape, wound, and consume us.“A feast for the literary senses.”—Anton Hur, Judge of the International Booker PrizeOn an ordinary afternoon, a woman sees her partner murdered in the street. Time freezes. She lifts his body from the pavement,
... Read more

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