[Please read it, alone, at night.] — so went the enclosed letter, unveiling a manuscript for the story of a peculiar incident set in a... more>> provincial town… <<less

A prologue of Another telling the story of Reiko in her high school days.

Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly multiple murder the year before. Predictably, they... more>> get picked off one by one by an unseen murderer. Is there a madman on the loose? What connection is there to the earlier murders? The answer is a bombshell revelation which few readers will see coming. [Locked Room International] <<less

In the spring of 1998, Kouichi Sakakibara transfers to Yomiyama North Middle School. In class, he develops a sense of unease as he notices that... more>> the people around him act like they’re walking on eggshells, and students and teachers alike seem frightened. As a chain of horrific deaths begin to unfold around him, he comes to discover that he has been placed in the cursed Class 3 in which the student body head count is always one more than expected. Class 3 is haunted by a vengeful spirit responsible for gruesome deaths in an effort to satisfy its spite. To stop the vicious cycle gripping his new school, Kouichi decides to get to the bottom of the curse, but is he prepared for the horror that lies ahead…? <<less