Thersa Matsuura is a graduate of Clarion West 2015,  a recipient of the HWA’s Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship and the author of two short story collections, A Robe of Feathers and Other Stories (Counterpoint Press LLC) and The Carp-Faced Boy and Other Tales (Independent Legions Press). The latter of which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award® (2017). Her most recent book is The Book of Japanese Folklore, published by Adams Media (2024). Thersa has lived over thirty years in a small town in Japan and shares her research and experiences on her podcast: Uncanny Japan.  Tomii Masako, a former comic artist, is a Tokyo-based illustrator, focusing mainly on drawing and book illustration. In her original works, she depicts other worlds interwoven with psychedelic fantasies that are not universal but which are visible to her, and are in a sense deformed, as if wandering the border between dreams and visions.

"A must for readers intrigued by Japan’s legends and how it interprets the mysteries of the world."

• Kami-Gods, Shinto and BuddhismJapan’s CreationIzanagi and IzanamiOrochiAmaterasu ŌmikamiEmperor JimmuInari OkamiSusano-oEbisuFūjin and Raijin GhostsFunayūreiHashihimeThe Ubume and Kosodate YūreiOiwaTaira no MasakadoTamamo no MaeYuki OnnaZashiki WarashiOkiku and the Nine PlatesYŌkaiAmabieBakuHitotsume KozōJorōgumoKappaKamaitachiKitsuneNopperabōOniRokurokubiTanukiTenguTsukumogamiYamaubaBunbuku ChagamaShuten DŌjiGLOSSARY

Thersa Matsuura is a graduate of Clarion West 2015,  a recipient of the HWA’s Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship and the author of two short story collections, A Robe of Feathers and Other Stories (Counterpoint Press LLC) and The Carp-Faced Boy and Other Tales (Independent Legions Press). The latter of which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award® (2017). Her most recent book is The Book of Japanese Folklore, published by Adams Media (2024). Thersa has lived over thirty years in a small town in Japan and shares her research and experiences on her podcast: Uncanny Japan.  Tomii Masako, a former comic artist, is a Tokyo-based illustrator, focusing mainly on drawing and book illustration. In her original works, she depicts other worlds interwoven with psychedelic fantasies that are not universal but which are visible to her, and are in a sense deformed, as if wandering the border between dreams and visions.

"A must for readers intrigued by Japan’s legends and how it interprets the mysteries of the world."

• Kami-Gods, Shinto and BuddhismJapan’s CreationIzanagi and IzanamiOrochiAmaterasu ŌmikamiEmperor JimmuInari OkamiSusano-oEbisuFūjin and Raijin GhostsFunayūreiHashihimeThe Ubume and Kosodate YūreiOiwaTaira no MasakadoTamamo no MaeYuki OnnaZashiki WarashiOkiku and the Nine PlatesYŌkaiAmabieBakuHitotsume KozōJorōgumoKappaKamaitachiKitsuneNopperabōOniRokurokubiTanukiTenguTsukumogamiYamaubaBunbuku ChagamaShuten DŌjiGLOSSARY