This horror novel follows a former band vocalist who becomes involved in research on erasing memory, only to be pursued by the past he thought had vanished and by the shadow of a classmate believed dead. Gaps in memory unsettle reality and distort the shape of the case.

The memories a man wanted erased return to him as a different kind of terror.

Centered on the title story, in which the spirit of a dead girl appears on the day a young woman makes her debut as a maiko in Kyoto’s geisha district, this horror collection sets resentment beneath the splendor of Gion’s traditions and memory.

On a day of celebration, a dead girl’s shadow rises from the memory of the geisha district.

This collection follows a former newspaper reporter who accepts a strange man’s request involving the recovery of words from the dead, then becomes caught in auditory hallucinations and ominous events. The occult force of language and the collapse of reality build a quiet unease.

Spreading horsetail reeds and words from the dead begin to erode the narrator’s reality.