The Mountain

Perfect for fans of Junji Ito and The Ring, Japanese horror legend Nanami Kamon's first novel in translation is an unsettling tale that blends folklore, curses and the supernatural. Summer is when the pot of hell opens. Minami, a horror writer and expert in the supernatural, is struggling to get started on her next book when an old friend, Asako, emails her out of the blue, asking for her help. Desperate for inspiration for her novel, Minami agrees to meet when she hears that Asako and a group of her coworkers have all been experiencing strange, frightening things since a nighttime visit to a supposedly haunted sawmill deep in the mountains. After talking with the group, Minami agrees to see what she can find out about the mysterious site, though she doubts that anything has truly followed them home—until she, too, is dragged in and the nightmares begin. The mountain is calling them back. And not all of them can resist its pull.