"Chikei" is a short story by Takashi Fuyuki that won first place in the 1964 Hoseki Short Story Prize. It is recorded as a winning contest story from Hoseki's final period, but no reliable standalone book, paperback, or collection containing the work was confirmed.

A first-place short story by Takashi Fuyuki from Hoseki's final contest period.

"Chinto no Seishun" is a short story by Reiko Fujii under the pen name Susumu Onuki and a first-place work in the 1964 Hoseki Short Story Prize. Later collected in Reiko Fujii Tantei Shosetsu-sen, it marks the starting point of a style attentive to psychological distortion within everyday life.

A first-place Hoseki story by Reiko Fujii about abnormal psychology within ordinary life.

"Naka no Yoi Kyodai" is a short story by Masaki Katsura, the pen name of Masaki Tsuji, that took second place in the 1964 Hoseki Short Story Prize. Later revised and retitled "Naka no Ii Kyodai" as a story-within-the-story in Honkaku Kekkon Satsujin Jiken, it stands as an early mystery with Tsuji's characteristic playfulness.

An early playful Masaki Tsuji mystery later reborn as a story within a story.