MONKEY 2025
MONKEY Vol 6: Horror
Vol. 6 of MONKEY is 176 pages of full color, featuring the best of contemporary Japanese literature and new translations of modern classics. The pieces in this volume introduce contemporary Japanese Horror, from murder in a cat café to a ghoulish deal with evil spirits, and from uncanny traces of a corporate ghost to unsettling encounters, dangerous transformations, and more!
Paperback 176 pages, full color
Dimensions 7 x 10 inches
ISBN paperback: 979-8-9886887-9-2
ISBN ebook: 979-8-9910170-0-8
Paperback - $20.00 Preorder now — On Sale November 18, 2025
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Table of Contents
VOLUME 6 | 2025
The Key
a story by Kaori Fujino
translated by Laurel Taylor
Blood Oath, The Falling, Wildcat, Old Home, Hagfish
People from My Neighborhood vignettes by Hiromi Kawakami
translated by Ted Goossen
The Host of Ghosts
an excerpt from The Tale of the Heike: The Inu-oh Chapters by Hideo Furukawa
translated and with an introduction by Kendall Heitzman
The Fragment
a story by Eric McCormack
Desert Forgetting
a story by Kyōhei Sakaguchi
translated by Sam Malissa
A Man and His Shadow
a graphic vignette by Satoshi Kitamura
A Light Like the Bottom of the Ocean
an essay by Yōko Ōta
translated by David Boyd
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Horror: A Monkey’s Dozen
Yamamba: A Noh Play
from the modern Japanese translation by Seikō Itō
translated and with an introduction by Jay Rubin
In-House Ghost Photos
a story by Kikuko Tsumura
translated by Polly Barton
Twelve More One-Second Stories
microfiction by Taruho Inagaki
translated by Jeffrey Angles
The Collector of Scents
a story by Yōko Ogawa
translated by Stephen Snyder
The Ghosts of Lexington
a story by Haruki Murakami
translated by Ted Goossen
Panda
a poem by Sawako Nakayasu
Neither Goose nor Pope
a graphic vignette by Satoshi Kitamura
Four Modern Haiku Poets on Eerie Encounters
selected and translated by Andrew Campana
The Science of Witchcraft: A Translator’s Afterword
a story by Ken Nishizaki
translated by Chris Corker
Homo Hypnosis
a graphic vignette by Satoshi Kitamura
Quo Vadis
a story by Eoin McNamee
The Man from the Hansa Quarter
a story by Yūko Yamao
translated by Asa Yoneda
Songs of the Curiosity Hunter
fifty poems by Kyūsaku Yumeno
translated and with an introduction by Jeffrey Angles
The Human Chair
a story by Ranpo Edogawa
translated by Jeffrey Angles
Glasshead
a prose poem by Makoto Takayanagi
translated by Michael Emmerich
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Touch
a story by Yūshō Takiguchi
translated by Kendall Heitzman
Baseball Players' Soup, Slaughter at the Cat Café, Reflections
three stories from The Woman Dies
by Aoko Matsuda
translated by Polly Barton
Taro
a graphic vignette by Satoshi Kitamura
Before Time, Bedtimes Stories, Turtle
three poems by Leo Elizabeth Takada
Writing Magic: The Third Love and Takaoka’s Travels
an essay by Hiromi Kawakami
translated by Ted Goossen
Tora-san’s Mini-Mini Marathon
a story by Barry Yourgrau
Has a story or image ever haunted you?
Remarks from thirteen translators
Jeffrey Angles on resurrecting ghosts
Polly Barton on the eeriest feeling
David Boyd on what’s buried under the cherry trees
Chris Corker on the casual cruelty of society
Ted Goossen on the haunting
Sam Malissa on the death of a cat
Jay Rubin on the most horrifying scene
Motoyuki Shibata on having never felt uneasy
Leo Elizabeth Takada on the destruction of the self
Asa Yoneda on double-ended swords
Hitomi Yoshio on blinking away
Anna Zielinska-Elliott on the most haunting image
Eve Zimmerman on eerie repetitions
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