わざと忌み家を建てて棲む

幽霊屋敷 #2

by Shinzō Mitsuda, 三津田 信三

「幽霊屋敷って一軒だけで充分に怖いですよね。それが複数ある場合は、どうなんでしょう」
知り合いの編集者・三間坂が作家・三津田の元に持ち込んだのは、曰くある物件を継ぎ接ぎした最凶の忌み家、そしてそこに棲んだ者達の記録。誰が、何の目的でこの「烏合邸」を作ったのか? 怖すぎると話題になった三津田信三の「幽霊屋敷」怪談、再び!

Tankobon Hardcover

About the author

See 三津田 信三 (Japanese)、 三津田信三 (Traditional Chinese).

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 3 out of 5]

(1) very intriguing setting and beginning for an urban legend style of short stories collection, but there is just no explanation or even an attempt at explaining any of the strange happenings in this monstrous household, how disappointing!

(2) the spooky stuff is well written, though!

(3) but...but why would you want to spend the night in a freaking haunted house!?

[Tiffany Zhao · Rating 4 out of 5]

Holy moly never been so terrified before reading a horror book. The premise is that there's a rich and insane billionaire who relocates haunted houses and gathers them into a village. 4 supernatural tales are related, and the first one spooked me so much. Is it truly supernatural? Or a desperate mother's spiral into lunacy? I reread the last bits of her diary 3 times. It's intentional to terrify the reader, by having unreliable narrators, diary format, revealing bits and bits that connect all 4 stories, and finally, the supernatural happenings as the author is reading the material. As if that's not enough, they break the fourth wall by speaking to the reader (us) - if you encounter any spooky happenings, stop reading. In fact, the author repeatedly warns the reader to stop reading further. This is guaranteed to make you scream like a baby when a family member speaks to you from outside the bathroom, or a light flickers (true story). The ending was actually quite good, this is one of Shinzo Mitsuda's best books. The 4 houses are arranged In a circle, with the medium living in the inner courtyard. The only gripe I have is that the pear shaped lady is like a marionette repeating words, even pressing closer to them (At the reception! Hovering at ground floor! Pressing closer to the elevator! But she conveniently disappears at the end when the author puts forward a daring hypothesis without basis.

[幽灵与飞烬 · Rating 3 out of 5]

2026.1.16 【5.3】 拼凑而成的凶宅集合体建筑，按道理讲应该会在空间结构以及各种灵异力量的融汇上产出一些绝妙点子，但实际给人的观感完全不是如此，只是把各个凶宅里的灵异事件套上了不同的文本形式，仅用宅子的所有者这条线索将其串起，因此解释怪异来源的原因时很容易让人感到牵强。前两个故事尚有令人毛骨悚然的恐怖感，后两个故事就陈词滥调了，尤其看到结尾一笔带过的糊弄解释，实在感到浓浓的失望。