Village of the Lost

by Tara A. Devlin

What truly lurks in the shadows?Driven to the edge and unable to take it any longer, a depressed man heads to an infamous forest to end it all. Once there, however, he stumbles upon something he could never have a village hidden deep in the trees.Who are these lost people? What do they really want? And why are they so afraid of something that lurks on the village’s edges? Sometimes, there are worse things than death lurking out there…Click the buy now button to uncover the secrets of the village right now.Reiwa Tanpen is a series of stand-alone Japanese horror, mystery, and thriller novellas and short stories for the new era. Featuring Japanese ghosts, curses, killers, yokai, urban legends, and much more, each story can be read independently of the rest.

44 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 25, 2021

About the author

Tara A. Devlin studied Japanese at the University of Queensland before moving to Japan in 2005. She lived in Matsue, the birthplace of Japanese ghost stories, for 10 years, where her love for Japanese horror really grew. And with Izumo, the birthplace of Japanese mythology, just a stone’s throw away, she was never too far from the mysterious. You can find her collection of horror and fantasy writings at taraadevlin.com and translations of Japanese horror at kowabana.net.

Reviews

[Lelon Thomas Messick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing!!!

All stars, this book was really good. Very suspenseful! I found it very interesting! This is freaky, awesome! That infamous forest in Japan is very familiar in this story!

[mark gossett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love J horror and Tamara is the best!

Never any spoilers! If you know her work you know the quality and chills and prose you love. I'm moving on to her next I believe I have them all but a couple

[Ong Thiam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting and creepy tale

I enjoyed this story eventhough I sort of predicted the ending. Read it at night and in the dark...yes it's creepy.