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Japan Horror Novel Grand Award にほんホラーしょうせつたいしょう

Edition 13 (2006)

Horror novelNewcomer literary award

Winners

2 people
Takashi Yabe やべ たかし award

A horror novel in which a boy visits relatives after his grandmother's death and is drawn into the cousin's absence and the family's disturbing behavior. It sharply depicts domestic unease through a child's eyes.

The quiet of a relative's house slowly becomes abnormal through a boy's eyes.

174 pages
domestic horrorchild viewpointdisappearanceunease
Akira Yoshioka よしおか あきら award

A horror novel whose title evokes the lore of burial grounds and funerary figures. It handles the dead, burial, and the memory of place with the texture of a ghost story.

The memory of a place shaped by the dead quietly unsettles everyday life.

279 pages
ghost storythe deadmemory of placefolklore