This week I decided to choose the Japanese novel, Kwadain which is a collection of short stories. Japanese horro seems to be a bit different from the kind we get here in America. The stories in this novel tend to focus on souls, love and reincarnation. One story featured a man killing a duck because of his intense hunger and had realistic nightmares of a women asking why he killed her husband. The next day, the wife of the duck comes before him and mutilates herself and the man became a priest for the rest of his life.
It definitely is strange considering what I am used to here, but it is a nice change although other stories seemed a bit too upbeat to consider them horror. One of those was a story of a man's wife dying and she promises she'll come back, years later, she does, and they get married, and it seems to end there. It's not my cup of teat, but there are people who do like this kind of stuff. All in all, it was an interesting read, but not my favorite of what I read so far in the class.