Ken Asamatsu

A who's-who of Japanese horror fiction, featuring some of the finest writers in Japan today, and reviews demonstrate that the Japanese taste for horror can send shivers up English-speaking spines as well! We are proud to present this fourth and last volume of the series, with a new selection of eerie masterpieces to delight and chill you.

The Dreaming God

Cody Goodfellow

The frozen continent of Antarctica still harbors mysteries, slowly being revealed by intrepid scientists and by melting ice caps. The stories in this new collection offer more revelations still, as our frostbitten authors chip away at the legacy bequeathed by H.P. Lovecraft in his historic novella At the Mountains of Madness. Lovecraft's epic is itself a continent teeming with lurking fears and horrors unknown. What mysterious entities did his star-headed crinoids serve? What genetic secrets gestated within the shifting masses of the unholy shoggoths? Can a mere human fathom or describe the thought patterns of such creatures? If the Elder Things survived, what further nefarious mischief might they have spread? Had there been other, earlier or later expeditions to the Lovecraftian tundra? Did the cyclopean metropolis of the Old Ones exist in this or some other dimension? Could there be unsuspected links between the Miskatonic Expedition and characters or events in other Lovecraft tales? What if The Twilight Zone had adapted At the Mountains of Madness for television? These are some of the icy secrets thawed out for our inspection by a team of parka-clad authors including: Stephen Mark Rainey, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Will Murray, Cody Goodfellow, Ken Asamatsu, C.J. Henderson, Edward Morris, Glynn Owen Barrass, Laurence J. Cornford, Pete Rawlik, Brian Sammons, and Pierre Comtois. These are guaranteed to be chilling tales in more ways than one!

Mountain of Madness

Masaki Yamada

Shinji Kajio

New talents from Japan introduced to the English-speaking world. From deep in the mountains of the Japanese countryside to the plains of frigid Pluto, from a warm South Pacific isle to a freezing mountainside, to Mars or inside a lonely psyche... a positive smorgasbord of speculative enjoyment, in English for the first time!

"Pearls for Mia" and Other Tales

Speculative Japan 4

Nazi Germany sent expeditions to the darkest hiding places of the world: to shadowed Africa, the towering peaks of Tibet, and the wastes of Antarctica, to locate occult weaponry and "aid" for the Third Reich. But they they find allies? Or the Old Gods themselves? Another fantastic novel of the War, the Cthulhu Mythos, and humanity in the middle.

Kthulhu Reich

Japan has always had its own vampire tradition, and has eagerly naturalized Western vampires and vampire literature to produce exotic new hybrids and species of horror, of terror, and of sensual, exquisite beauty. Here are a few of their masterpieces. The Japanese word for vampire is kyūketsuki, which translates literally to "blood-sucking monster," but the literary tradition is far, far more complex. The practice of Buddhism permeates Japan, and burials are almost always by cremation... leaving the Count and his relatives with no coffins to sleep in! But there is more than one way to sip a little blood, as these authors reveal. Thanks to Bram Stoker, Christopher Lee, and countless others who have popularized the Western vampire, modern Japanese authors have an extensive range of traditions and tales to weave into their own creations. Contents Introduction -- Raechel Dumas A Cultural Dynasty of Beautiful Vampires: Japan's Acceptance, Modifications, and Adaptations of Vampires -- Shimokusu Masaya Blue Lady -- Inoue Masahiko Kingdom -- Asukabe Katsunori The Stone Castle -- Kikuchi Hideyuki The One-Legged Woman -- Okamoto Kidō Vampire -- Hikage Jōkichi The Crimson Cloak -- Asamatsu Ken Vow -- Sunaga Asahiko The Husk Heir -- Kajio Shinji A Piece of Butterfly's Wing -- Kamon Nanami Unnatural -- Okuda Tetsuya Paradise Missing -- Iino Fumihiko Dracula's House -- Fukuzawa Tetsuzō Birth of a Vampire -- Konaka Chiaki Halvires -- Mikawa Yū Parasol -- Inoue Masahiko

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