★ Six of Japan's top horror writers join forces in one volume! Led by Mitsuda Shinzo and Sawamura Ichi, this "all-star anthology" brings together a Yokomizo Seishi Prize triple-crown winner, a Sogen Horror Long Prize winner, and a Japan Horror Novel Award winner — a showcase of Japanese horror at its finest.
★ Six authors, six distinct styles of terror: folkloric ghost stories, urban legends, internet-forum horror, and historical dread — all pointing to the same truth: curses are not far away. They are hiding in the folds of everyday life.
★ Mitsuda Shinzo's representative work holds an 8.8 Douban rating with over 20,000 reviews in China. Sesuji's debut novel has sold over 100,000 copies in Japan — both authors already have devoted followings across the Chinese-language market.
★ Not gore or jump scares, but the kind of horror that lingers — the kind that makes you replay scenes in your head late at night, too unsettled to turn off the light. Once you turn the first page, you can never go back to "this side" again.
★ For everyone who has ever paused before a dusty secondhand bookstore, flipped through an old exchange diary late at night, or felt inexplicably uneasy during a routine company training session — you may already be standing on the threshold of a cursed door.

A curse seeps out from the darkness hidden in everyday life. Before you even realize it, "it" has dragged you over to the other side.

A defilement spreading through a provincial city. A grudge lurking within a middle-school girl's exchange diary. Forbidden memories gathering in an unmanned secondhand bookstore. A curse affixed to a work of imitation. An ushi no koku mairi ritual bringing death upon a prestigious family. Malice concealed inside an ordinary employee training session... There is no turning back now.

Six cursed doors open — right now.

Mitsuda Shinzo
A defining voice in Japanese "folkloric horror × honkaku mystery." A former editor, he debuted in 2001 with his eponymous novelist series and won the Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize in 2010. His representative work The Headless Ritual holds an 8.8 Douban rating with over 20,000 reader reviews, and his "Tokiya Gentō" series, already published in multiple Chinese editions, has made him one of the most successfully imported Japanese horror-mystery authors in the Chinese-language market.

Sawamura Ichi
Born in Osaka in 1979. In 2015, he won the Grand Prize of the 22nd Japan Horror Novel Award with It Comes, receiving perfect scores in the preliminary round from all three judges — Ayatsuji Yukito, Kishi Yūsuke, and Miyabe Miyuki. In 2019, he received the 72nd Mystery Writers of Japan Award (Short Story category). It Comes has been published in Chinese and adapted into a feature film directed by Nakashima Tetsuya, starring Okada Junichi, Kuroki Haru, Komatsu Nana, Matsu Takako, and Tsumabuki Satoshi.

Sesuji
The most talked-about new talent in Japanese horror in recent years. In 2023, he serialized his debut Somewhere in the Kinki Region on a fiction submission website, where it quickly became a sensation. It has since sold over 100,000 copies in Japan, garnered over 1,200 discussions and a 4.2-star rating on Amazon, and was ranked No. 1 in the domestic category of Kono Horror ga Sugoi! 2024. Written as anonymous posts in an online forum, it pioneered a completely new style of horror storytelling.

Ashikaga Kōen
A core author of Kadokawa Horror Bunko. In 2019, he won the 3rd Japan Horror Novel Award with Bone-Tangled, which sparked a wave of online reactions from readers claiming they "couldn't sleep after reading it." His representative works include the novel The Heretical Festival. He is known for crafting unease out of the most ordinary settings.

Kitazawa Tō
Born in Osaka Prefecture. A graduate of Newcastle University (UK) with an MA in English Literature. In 2023, his novel Hell Screen swept the 43rd Yokomizo Seishi Mystery & Horror Awards, winning the Grand Prize, the Readers' Prize, and the Kakuyomu Prize — becoming the first triple-crown winner in the award's history. His debut, set in late Taishō-era Osaka, balances meticulous historical research with an overwhelming atmosphere of dread. The Kadokawa editorial team praised his writing, saying it "is so polished it's hard to believe he is a newcomer."

Uefuji Kazuki
Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1992, a graduate of Waseda University. His novel The Mind Reader in the Abyss won the 1st Sogen Horror Long Prize and simultaneously claimed the No. 1 spot in Kono Horror ga Sugoi! 2025 and the top domestic ranking in Best Horror 2024, achieving a horror-fiction triple crown. His representative work The Prisoner of the Poltergeist has been praised by Da Vinci magazine as "a high-level fusion of the supernatural, horror, and mystery." He is currently one of the most closely watched rising stars in Japanese horror.

The Curse Shines Brightly (Uefuji Kazuki)
The Cursed Exchange Diary (Kitazawa Tō)
Inside the Cave (Sawamura Ichi)
Degraded Copy (Sesuji)
Lord Ippongi (Mitsuda Shinzo)
"Please Take a Long Rest" (Ashikaga Kōen)