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Yokomizo Seishi Mystery & Horror Grand Award よこみぞせいしみすてりあんどほらーたいしょう

Edition 10 (1990)

MysteryHorror

Winners

3 people
水城嶺子 みずき れいこ excellent work

A college student is thrown into late-19th-century London and tackles a difficult case alongside Holmes and his circle. The work blends time-slip fiction with the pleasures of pastiche.

In a London beyond time, Mizuki faces a case with famous detectives.

325 pages
time slipLondonHolmesmysterypastiche
Koji Suzuki すずき こうじ nominee

A group of young people die at the same time after watching a single videotape. The novel follows the spread of the curse and the search for its truth, and helped reshape Japanese horror fiction.

The image that should never have been seen has already been seen.

336 pages
horrorcursevideo tapefearsuspense
Tatsuya Yoshimura よしむら たつや nominee

A prize-winning work by Teiko Yamazato that is also cited in the context of Okinawan literature. Through shifts in bodily awareness and self-determination, it invites reflection on the relationship between the individual and society.

A quietly intense award-winning work that has been read in the context of Okinawan literature.

705 pages
Okinawabodyself-determinationliterary prizesociety