Her heart is exposed, and she seeks a protective bag. This story tells of a woman who comes to a tailor who makes bags seeking a custom bag to hold her heart. The most chilling tale of all may be Sewing for the Heart. In Revenge, Ogawa has crafted and curated a collection of tales which, while not short ghost stories, are something just as terrifying and arguably far cleverer and more memorable. Her story of love and acceptance - The Housekeeper and The Professor - is a truly unique and memorable masterpiece.Īnd her newest book to be translated, The Memory Police, is a dystopian novel that will go down beside the greats like Nineteen Eighty-Four. If you don’t know Yoko Ogawa, you should start knowing her now. You will walk away feeling truly haunted.īuy the book here! Sewing for the Heart by Yoko Ogawa (Revenge)
This, and every other story in this collection, is nothing short of distressingly terrifying. When they find them, we see that each balloon has a noose hanging beneath it which ensnares its human and kills them, leaving the body to float off with the balloon. In this story, enormous inflated heads depicting the faces of real people float across Japan, seeking out their counterparts. The best of Shiver, if you’re in the mood to be truly haunted, is Hanging Blimp. In his short story collection Shiver, he demonstrates the very peak of his storytelling and graphic horror prowess. Ito is a Japanese mangaka whom you’re either already a huger and dedicated fan of, or you’ve never heard of.īut please trust us when we say you’ll never be more unsettled, frightened, chilled, and even upset by a simply image the way you will be by Ito’s.ĭigging deep into his short ghost stories and horror stories is to be truly frightened of turning the next page. While we’re on the subject of graphic horror stories, let’s discuss the undisputed king of graphic horror: Junji Ito. How he can stand to look at it with an imagination like his is beyond us.īuy the book here! Reunion by Bora Chung (Cursed Bunny)
To add to this creep factor, King himself actually owns the painting that inspired this story. It’s a chilling story, one of those ideal scary campfire stories that’ll leave a shiver down your spine that you just can’t shake off. Soon he pieces together that the car in the painting is moving closer to where he lives. The owner of the painting begins to notice that, each time he admires the painting, the scenery shifts to a place he recognises.
The Road Virus Heads North, from the short story collection Everything’s Eventual, tells the story of a painting depicting a car moving at high speed. Kicking off this list of short ghost stories with a legend like King is predictable, yes, but trust us when we say that his short ghost stories are far more haunted, more unsettling, more creatively creepy than any of his more well-known novels.
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