KAPPA BY RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA, TRANSLATED BY ALLISON MARKIN POWELL AND LISA HOFMANN KURODA Twilight of the Republic Four for Call of Cthulhu

Four for Call of Cthulhu (“Dog Will Hunt

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and yet his reputation as a sensation and detective novelist has long overshadowed his inventive contributions to the ghost story genre

these enthralling tales of terror plunge readers into a world of creeping dread

KAPPA BY RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA, TRANSLATED BY ALLISON MARKIN POWELL AND LISA HOFMANN KURODA Twilight of the Republic Four for Call of CthulhuThe Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed beak and an oval shaped saucer on top of its head, which hardens with age. Akutagawas Kappa is narrated by Patient No. 23, a madman in a lunatic asylum: he recounts how, while out hiking in Kamikochi, he spots a Kappa. He decides to chase it and, like Alice