Speculative Japan 3: “Silver Bullet” and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy Introduction by Darrell Schweitzer The third book of our well-received Speculative Japan series, this volume brings more outstanding authors from the Japanese archipelago to English, with a selection of never-before published stories covering a broad range of speculative fiction… from gritty […]

Hanatsumi Nikki The Flowers of Italy Masaharu ANESAKI translated with an introduction by Susanna FESSLER Masaharu Anesaki (1873-1949) was a leading member of Japan’s most interesting generation: the second generation of Meiji scholars, who lived in a highly-educated if not rarefied world that blended Japanese and Western traditions in a way that made them unique […]

Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy selected and edited by Gene van Troyer and Grania Davis The first book in an ongoing series, Speculative Japan presents a selection of outstanding works of Japanese science fiction and fantasy in English translation… and a glimpse into new worlds of the imagination. It was […]

The Edogawa Rampo Reader Stories and essays by EDOGAWA Rampo EDOGAWA Rampo edited and translated by Seth Jacobowitz introduction by Tatsumi Takayuki Edogawa Rampo (pseudonym of Hirai Tarō, 1894-1965) is the acknowledged grand master of Japan’s golden age of crime and mystery fiction. He is also a major writer in the tradition of Japanese Modernism, […]

The Red Star of Cadiz ŌSAKA Gō translated by Usha Jayaraman Kurodahan Press is proud to present the first English translation of Red Star of Cadiz, an international suspense thriller that won author Osaka acclaim as a new master of the genre in Japan. The work has won three prestigious awards: the 96th Naoki Prize, […]

Queen of K’n-Yan ASAMATSU Ken translated by Kathleen Taji introduction by Darrell Schweitzer The mummy of a beautiful young girl from Shang Dynasty China is found in an ornate and astonishingly large underground tomb. Preliminary research shows that her cells contain reptilian DNA, and a Japanese research lab is asked to investigate further… Working under […]

Japan in Five Ancient Chinese Chronicles: Wo, the Land of Yamatai, and Queen Himiko Massimo SOUMARÉ translated by Davide Mana edited by Anthony J. Bryant and Mark Hall For the first time in English, this work presents a comparative study of the content of famous Chinese historical texts that are fundamental in the knowledge of […]

The Black Lizard and Beast in the Shadows EDOGAWA Rampo translated by Ian Hughes introduction by Mark Schreiber Edogawa Rampo (pseudonym of Hirai Tarō, 1894-1965) is the acknowledged grand master of Japan’s golden age of crime and mystery fiction. Kurodahan Press takes great pleasure in presenting the first English language translations of these two short […]

Speculative Japan 2 “The Man Who Watched the Sea” and Other Tales Introduction by Darrell Schweitzer The second book of the groundbreaking Speculative Japan series, this volume presents a selection of never-before published translations covering a broad range of speculative fiction… from gritty SF to soft fantasy, it offers glimpses into the diverse and rich […]

Toward Dusk and Other Stories YOSHIYUKI Junnosuke translated by Andrew Clare preface by James Dorsey Yoshiyuki Junnosuke was a sensual writer, whose style is reminiscent of that of novelists such as Tanizaki Jun’ichirō and Nagai Kafū. His works deal with the possibility of emotional purity in the relationships between men and women. Often, the relationship […]