Salad Akitake's "Mamono Drive X-Day" won both the grand prize and readers' prize of the Japan Horror Novel Award and was later published under the title Saihi Sayo no Kokai. Centered on a girl with the power to contain supernatural phenomena, it combines horror, youth drama, and action.

A girl's regret and her power over the uncanny accelerate into a youth-horror story.

Toshiya Fukushi's "Pyramid no Kaibutsu" won the grand prize of the Japan Horror Novel Award and was published as Kuroi Pyramid. It combines archaeological mystery with ancient terror, unfolding as a large-scale adventure horror novel.

A large-scale archaeological horror in which an ancient mystery presses into the present.

Salad Akitake's "Mamono Drive X-Day" is also recorded as the readers' prize work. In its published form, Saihi Sayo no Kokai, the story is reshaped as a fast youth-horror novel centered on a girl's power to contain the uncanny and the regret she carries.

A readers' prize youth-horror work about the uncanny and a girl's regret.

Yosuke Tai's "Jewel Idol" is recorded as a finalist for the Japan Horror Novel Award. The title overlays the contemporary figure of the idol with the image of a curse, suggesting an entertainment-oriented horror premise.

A finalist horror work that overlays idol brightness with a curse.

Sorako Miyashita's "Yuigoto" is recorded as a finalist for the Japan Horror Novel Award. Its title, suggesting words tied together or bound, evokes a horror premise rooted in relationships, promises, and unease.

A finalist work that suggests the unease hidden in the act of binding words.