What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

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► UNSOLVED: One specific book > Short Stories collection, includes a story about man moves into apartment and sees girl in apartment across mimicking his actions but then gradually finds himself mimicking her actions and attempts to hang himself

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message 1: by Yoh Nago (new)

Yoh Nago | 1 comments Read a Japanese translation of this short story collection back in the 1970s. Believe the original was written by American or British author.

In the story I am trying to find, the man moves into an apartment that has a reputation for its prior residents committing suicide. He reassures his friend that he is not afraid, he will be fine. After moving in, he looks out his window into another apartment across the way and sees a girl who is mimicking his actions. He thinks it is cute and tells his friend. One day, his friend finds the man attempting to hang himself but saves him in time. The man says that it started with the girl mimicking him, but gradually, he found himself mimicking the girl.


message 2: by Capn (new)

Capn | 3506 comments Do you remember anything about the rest of the book? Maybe the cover, or how many pages or other stories were in it? Were they all morbid, or was this the stand-out?


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