Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse

Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse

Two short novels, including the title story and Black Fairy Tale, plus a bonus short story. Summer is the simple story of a nine-year-old girl who dies while on summer vacation.

While her youthful killers try to hide her body, she tells us the story from the point of view of her dead body of the children’s attempt to get away with murder.

Black Fairy Tale is classic J-horror: a young girl loses an eye in an accident but receives a transplant. Now she can see again, but what she sees out of her new left eye is the experiences and memories of its previous owner. Its previous deceased owner.

Biographical Notes:

Born 1978 in Fukuoka, Otsuichi won the Sixth Jump Short Fiction/Nonfiction Prize when he was seventeen with his debut story “Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse.” Now recognized as one of the most talented young fantasy/horror writers in Japan, his other English-language works include the short story collections Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse/Black Fairy Tale, and ZOO (Haikasoru).

Goth won the Honkaku Mystery Award and was adapted into a feature film starring Rin Takanashi.

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