Fiction and Essays (view Full Listing)

• Introduction: The Eight Millionth and First Spirit • essay by Nick Mamatas
• Foreword (Phantasm Japan: Fantasies Light and Dark, From and About Japan) • essay by Masumi Washington
• A Tale of Japan: In His Wake • short fiction by Zachary Mason
• Shikata Ga Nai: The Bag Lady's Tale • short fiction by Gary A. Braunbeck
• Scissors or Claws, and Holes • short fiction by Yusaku Kitano
• Her Last Appearance • short fiction by Lauren Naturale
• He Dreads the Cold • short fiction by James A. Moore
• A Tale of Japan: A Successful Ruse • short fiction by Zachary Mason
• Girl, I Love You • short story by Nadia Bulkin
• The Last Packet of Tea • short fiction by Quentin S. Crisp
• The Parrot Stone • short fiction by Seia Tanabe
• Kamigakari • short fiction by Jacqueline Koyanagi
• A Tale of Japan: The True Bodhisattva • short fiction by Zachary Mason
• From the Nothing, with Love • short fiction by
  伊藤計劃^?Itō Keikaku
  いとうけいかく
  Itou Keikaku
  [as by Project Itoh]
• Those Who Hunt Monster Hunters • short story by Tim Pratt
• Inari Updates the Map of Rice Fields • short fiction by Alex Dally MacFarlane
• The Street of Fruiting Bodies • short fiction by
  上田早夕里^?うえださゆり
  Ueda Sayuri
  (trans. of
  くさびらの道^?くさびらのみち
  Kuchibira no Michi
  Kusabira no Michi
  2007) [as by Sayuri Ueda]
• A Tale of Japan: Mesalliance • short fiction by Zachary Mason
• Chiyoko • short fiction by
  宮部みゆき^?Miyuki Miyabe
• Ningyo • short fiction by Benjanun Sriduangkaew
• Thirty-Eight Observations on the Nature of the Self • short story by Joseph Tomaras
• Sisyphean • novelette by
  酉島伝法^?とりしまでんぽう
  Torishima Denpō
  Torishima Denpou
  Torishima Denpo
  (trans. of
  皆勤の徒^?かいきんのと
  Kaikin no To
  2013) [as by Dempow Torishima]
• A Tale of Japan: Tengu of the Wood • short fiction by Zachary Mason