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Mu Legendary Novel Grand Award むーでんきのべるたいしょう

Edition 3 (2003)

Winners

3 people
葉越晶 best award

Ouma no Toshi is Akira Hagoshi's legendary fantasy novel. Argentos, an intelligence gatherer attached to the temple of the ancient city Ravataar, investigates a missing priest and murdered citizens, entering a city haunted by dreams of the dead and lingering resentment.

In a city where the dreams of the dead wander, a hidden disturbance behind the oracle is pursued.

375 pages
legendary fantasyancient cityoraclecursefantasy
浅永マキ excellence award

A supernatural horror novel set around an old house in a mountain village and the taboos handed down within it. In a mansion cut off from the outside world, youthful desire and family secrets converge toward a ritual-like tragedy.

A taboo sleeping in an old mountain household turns desire in a closed world into a blood-tinged supernatural tale.

213 pages
old mountain householdtaboosupernatural horrorblood ties and desire
Makiko Nagashima excellence award

A supernatural novel that combines a traveling theater troupe with the atmosphere of ghost stories. Scenes advance like spaces on a sugoroku board, linking itinerant performance, local entanglements, and the fears people carry within them.

Each time the traveling stage opens, the ghost story advances another square and the place reveals its old entanglements.

364 pages
traveling theaterghost storiesitinerancylocal entanglement