Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales

Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales is a compilation of fictional stories. Written in a dark and mysterious fashion, this is a collection of eleven stories of horror, suspense and macabre. Initially written in Japanese, the book has been translated into English for a larger audience in one of them, an aspiring writer comes home to her new apartment to discover that her husband has been murdered by the landlady. Meanwhile, a talented surgeon is visited in his clinic by a beautiful cabaret singer who has a heart in a shockingly grotesque condition. Jealous of her, the surgeon's lover has threatened to kill him in the midst of all this danger and mystery, the surgeon's neighbour is an even more mysterious character living in an old residence, which is home to tools and objects used for human torture. Many such other mysterious short situations involving children and mothers, mourners and murderers and innocent bystanders make the book an intriguing web of characters, mystery and macabre. This reprint edition of Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales has been published in paperback by Picador in 2013.