This weekend we spotlight horror short stories set in locations around the world and written by horror authors from all over. Today we look at a horror short story collection called ZOO by Otsuichi and translated from Japanese into English by Terry Gallagher.
Born Hirotaka Adachi in 1978 in Fukuoka, Japan, Otsuichi (his pen-name) is both a filmmaker and an author of primarily horror stories.
At the age of 17, he won the Sixth Jump Short Fiction/Nonfiction Prize for “Summer, Fireworks and My Corpse.” He has also won the Honkaku Mystery Prize for his novel Goth and now ZOO has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award.
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Nominated for the 2009 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Single-Author Collection Ten stories of horror and science fiction from Japan’s hottest young author. In one story, the last man on Earth turns out to be a robot. In another story, a man builds a house from the bodies of his murder victims. And in the book’s eponymous story, a man sees his girlfriend’s corpse decompose . . . one Polaroid snapshot at a time! Table of Contents:
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