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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 24 (2017)

Horror novelNewcomer literary award

Winners

4 people
蒼井碧 excellence award

Mojiretsu no Yurei was published under the retitled name Kiki Kitan Henshubu: Horror Sakka wa Obake ga Kowai. It follows a novice writer who can see spirits but fears them and an editor who lacks psychic sight yet is unfazed by ghosts, as they investigate apparitions that emit strange sounds and uncover how rumor and narrative give shape to the supernatural.

An award-winning story in which a frightened writer and an unflappable editor pursue the source of a ghostly sound.

240 pages
horrorghost storiesrumoreditorsmetafiction
田村和大 excellence award

Mayoiga is a supernatural adventure novel in which Fuyuno Shinzo, a boy evacuated after the Tokyo air raids, searches for his missing sister and enters a vast mansion deep in the mountains. Set in an otherworldly house that seals away folk creatures and sacred objects, the story layers wartime loss with the momentum of a monster-filled adventure.

The mountain mansion takes people. A wartime boy crosses a maze of spirits, monsters, and hidden relics.

416 pages
horrorfolkloreyokaiwarotherworld
くろきすがや readers prize

Takenoyama no Shayo was published under the retitled name Harasaki. Momosaki Hinata, newly engaged, returns to her hometown of Takenoyama in search of lost childhood memories, only to be driven through a deserted otherworldly town by black shadows as she approaches the terror hidden in her past.

A hometown revisited for lost memories turns into an inescapable otherworld.

240 pages
horrorlost memoryhometownotherworldurban legend
宮ヶ瀬水 nominee

Ashiato by Sodehiki Yohei is recorded as a finalist for the 24th Japan Horror Novel Grand Prize. Within the available public information checked, no publication plan, standalone book, or paperback edition of the work itself could be confirmed.

A finalist for the 24th Japan Horror Novel Grand Prize, with no confirmed standalone publication.

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