Product details
- ISBN 9780857508928
- Weight: 750g
- Dimensions: 156 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A must-have for anyone fascinated by the darker side of Japanese folklore.
Are you ready to play The Game of 100 Candles?
Beneath the global fascination with manga and anime lies a shadowy realm teeming with Japan's yokai monsters, mutants, and vengeful mononoke spirits. These eerie entities have gripped imaginations with their terrifying allure since the Edo period, weaving a dark tapestry of folklore that continues to captivate and haunt to this day.
In The Game of 100 Candles, 99 uncanny tales, known as 'kaidan', await to reveal the dark side of Japanese folklore. Discover a world of bizarre entities, animate objects, shapeshifters, and spectral hybrids that inspired modern art forms like kabuki theatre, Pokémon, J-Horror, and the monsters of Murakami Takashi.
Step inside The Game of 100 Candles, but beware, this test of samurai courage may bring about an even greater horror.
Paola Cantatore (Author)
Paola Cantatore studied languages at the University of Naples and at Ca’ Foscari, Venice, specializing in Japanese. At twenty-three she moved to Tokyo to perfect her language skills
and complete her studies. She works as a translator, editor and copywriter, and teaches at the Department of Foreign languages at the University of Ferrara.
Toru Terada (Illustrator)
Toru Terada was born in the Prefecture of Shizuoka, and moved to Tokyo after his diploma. He became an assistant to the mangaka Atsuji Kamijo, working with him for a decade. He made his solo debut with Little World, a full-color manga created for France with a script by screenwriter Jean-David Morvan, published for the first time by Dargaud in 2005.
For Japan he illustrated the black-and-white mystery series Number 8 in
38 Oiwake-tyo.
