The Ghost Story Dedicated to Hideo Himura
KYOYA ORIGAMI Born in London in 1980. Debuted in 2012 with the Kodansha BOX Powers Newcomer Award winning The Psychic Test . In 2015 she won the Japan Horror Novel Awards Reader's Choice for The Memory Eraser , and in 2021 she won the Miraiya Novel Award Grand Prize for A Bouquet and a Venom . Her other works include She's There , Don't Suspect Your Neighbors , Kiss and Smoke , and The Phantom Woman: The Case Files of Snake-Eyed Detective Sakichi. The restaurant was on the fifth floor of an eight story building, behind a heavy wooden door. As I entered, I saw a large window directly across from the door, with two tables in front of it and two more against the wall. It was a small restaurant where every seat had a view to the kitchen. There was only one other customer, a man sitting at one of the tables. Every other seat was empty. It ha...