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Bankai
Series · 2 books · 2020-2022

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Baffling Japanese Internet Mysteries: Volume One

2020

An anonymous money hunt organised online with a terrifying ending that nobody saw coming. A house, free to the first taker who could abide by a few simple rules. As long as you didn’t mind the thing that came down from the woods at night… A video remembered by all, yet nobody could agree on the details. Did it ever really exist, or was something else going on? Baffling Japanese Internet Mysteries delves into 26 horrifying, mind-bending, and often downright befuddling mysteries that sprang to life on the Japanese internet. From terrifying real-time experiences to long lost memories, urban legends in the making to real life crimes, these mysteries have confused, amused, and terrified for years. Think you’ve heard it all? You haven’t seen anything yet. Hit that Buy Now button and dig into a brand new set of mysteries you’ve never seen before.
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Bankai

Baffling Japanese Internet Mysteries: Volume Three

2022

The mysteries don’t stop. A 200-year-old scroll depicting the finder’s ancestors as terrifying monsters. What was really going on? A man lost in a world that looked similar, yet somehow different to home. Where did he really end up? A long-lost commercial remembered by hundreds, yet zero proof that it ever existed… That is, until someone dug up some old video tapes. What this finally the real deal? Bankai: Baffling Japanese Internet Mysteries Vol. 3 delves into 37 horrifying, mind-bending, and often downright befuddling mysteries that sprang to life on the Japanese internet. From terrifying real-time experiences to long lost memories, urban legends in the making to real life crimes, these mysteries have confused, amused, and terrified for years. Think you’ve heard it all? You haven’t seen anything yet.

Author

Tara A. Devlin
Tara A. Devlin
Author · 23 books
Tara A. Devlin studied Japanese at the University of Queensland before moving to Japan in 2005. She lived in Matsue, the birthplace of Japanese ghost stories, for 10 years, where her love for Japanese horror really grew. And with Izumo, the birthplace of Japanese mythology, just a stone’s throw away, she was never too far from the mysterious. You can find her collection of horror and fantasy writings at taraadevlin.com and translations of Japanese horror at kowabana.net.
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