The Stairs

An anthology of horror one-shots by various artists. 1. Shirayuki-hime (白雪姫, Snow White) [Ito Junji]; Manga Grimm Douwa 2014-12 2. Prologue de Owaru Monogatari (プロローグで終わる物語, The Story that Ends with the Prologue) [Takahashi Yousuke] 3. Shinrei Naika (心霊内科, Spiritual Medicine) [Inuki Kanako] 4. Bungaku Seinen (文学青年, The Bookworm) [Amagappa Shoujogun] 5. Circus Kitan: Onishi Haha to Oni Hahaji (サーカス奇譚 –鬼死母と鬼母児-, A Circus Tale) [Hino Hideshi]; 1987 Zouken Young Jump: Seisjun-go! Vol. 9 6. Iyana Ehon (嫌な絵本) [Noroi Michiru]; Hontou ni Kowai Douwa 2011-07 7. Kurayami no Onna-tachi (暗闇の女たち) [Inuki Kanako] 8. Kago no Tori (籠の鳥, Caged Bird) [Osada Noto] 9. "Mujina" Hajimemashita ("むじな"はじめました, The "Badger" Has Begun) [Takahashi Yousuke]; Kadokawa 2015-01-30

One night while star gazing neighbors Haruhiko and Fuko encounter strange lights in the sky...the next day they wake up to find themselves in an entirely new and strange world...

A one-shot that appeared in issue 4 of Silver Star Club (Atelier Peyotl). A young boy and his older sister cross paths with a strange old lady at an abandoned railway crossing. This would also be republished in 1999 with expanded art, as wordless comic "Blood Fruit" in Comix 2000 (L'Association)

Six classic chilling stories populated with yokai, ghosts and demons. A work that enchants with aesthetic refinement and imaginative suggestion. Inspired by Lafcadio Hearn's celebrated Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904) and other famous legends from Japanese mythology such as the fascinating and frightening Snow Woman. An unforgettable journey into the mysterious Japanese spectral realm.

Three chapters have been published in ALL KAIDAN from Issue 04 to Issue 07.

A Shoujo version of The Living Corpse that was later adapted into the film "Dead Girl Walking". On her yearly health checkup Yuri Ohara receives a terrifying diagnosis: she has zero brainwave activity, no respiratory function, and no pulse. She is dead...but she is still alive...

Originally published in Issue 32/1995 (October 20th) of Gakuen Mystery. "Kaidan" can mean both "Stairs" and "Ghost Story" depending on what kanji it is written with.

After a nuclear apocalypse, a group of death row inmates finds themselves the only survivors unaffected by the blast and radiation. Unleashed on a devastated world, they vow to "bloom one last time - as flowers of death"!

A one-shot that appeared in September 1968 issue of Garo [ガロ]. This was reworked in 1973 in an issue of COM that can be found in My Devil Comes.

Who lives in that ivy-covered mansion? The gate with its solid bars has not been opened in a long time. Every time Yuri passes it on her way to school, she feels two piercing eyes on her. They belong to the man who lives in that cursed house! Yet Yuri, dragged by a sinister call, feels compelled to cross its threshold... Little does she know that the gates of hell have just swung open!