A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults. Amanda - a successful architect in a happy marriage - finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she's doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea.
The new voice in Amanda's head, the one that tells her to steal things and talk to strange men in bars, is strange and frightening, and Amanda struggles to wrest back control of her life. Is she possessed by a demon, or is she simply insane?
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Summary:
Mochizuki Yuzuki, 29. Junior High Teacher. Unmarried, no children.
After the death of her coworker, Mochizuki "Moon-Moon" Yuzuki finds herself plagued by horrific visions. Feelings of guilt twist themselves into creatures with enormous maws and fangs. Monsters and shadows stalk, the dead speak, and darkness creeps ever closer. The lines between fantasy and reality blur as she becomes able to escape, even in sleep.
Desperate, she solicits the help of a Tea Shop and its surly owner. It promises the banishment of her nightmares, at a cost.
However, the creatures are very real and on the hunt. If Yuzuki doesn't act soon, it will cost lives.
Including her own.
If you like yokai, a mentally ill (anxiety) lead, and a magical world just under our own, I'd love for you to check it out.
i think at this point everyone can agree that asian horror will always have a superior hold on paranormal horror. demons, ghosts, and etc are just way scarier coming from any asian country. good for them
Same rule as my early 80s horror in not having the ‘typical’ big name franchises that always sweep (I know half of you are lying when you pick them I just know-)
Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he’s desperate for money–it’s not easy to find safe work when you can’t provide references, you can’t stay in one place for long, and you’re paranoid that your past is creeping back up on you.
When he comes across the strange ad for the Masson House in Degener, Texas, Eric thinks they may have finally caught a lucky break. The Masson property, notorious for being one of the most haunted places in Texas, needs a caretaker of sorts. The owner is looking for proof of paranormal activity. All they need to do is stay in the house and keep a detailed record of everything that happens there. Provided the house’s horrors don’t drive them all mad, like the caretakers before them.
The job calls to Eric, not just because there’s a huge payout if they can make it through, but because he wants to explore the secrets of the spite house. If it is indeed haunted, maybe it’ll help him understand the uncanny power that clings to his family, driving them from town to town, making them afraid to stop running. A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father’s love, Johnny Compton’s The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the making.