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A ghost story without much story

The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike

June 15, 2019 by Bothari43 Leave a Comment

How long would you stay if you suspected your new apartment was haunted? A week? Six months? Two hundred pages? Misao, her husband Teppei, and their small daughter move into a gorgeous new apartment building. The price is suspiciously low, because the building is located right next to a cemetery, temple, and crematorium. Also suspicious: half the new apartments are empty, and the ones that are occupied are rapidly losing their tenants. The first day they move in, the family’s parakeet dies, and the little […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Bothari43, ghost story, haunting, Marike Koike, Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature

Bothari43's CBR11 Review No:12 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Bothari43, ghost story, haunting, Marike Koike, Yoshikawa Eiji Prize for Literature ·
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