日本の都市伝説と怪談を題材にした、英語の短編ホラー小説集です。 オリジナルの怪談（kaidan）16話を収録しています。英語の読書用電子書籍です。 She is beautiful. She is polite. And her shadow arrives a few seconds before she does. Japan has told ghost stories for centuries — in candlelit rooms where a hundred tales were traded for a hundred flames, each story blown out one by one until something might be standing in the dark with you. The candles are gone. The darkness is provided by other means now: the last train with one car too many, the country inn with a sixth room, the elevator that stops at a floor that isn't there, the voicemail that arrives from next week. JAPANESE URBAN LEGENDS collects sixteen original kaidan — short horror stories written in the classical Japanese discipline of quiet wrongness. No gore. No jump scares. Just one detail, slightly out of place, in an otherwise ordinary world — and the growing certainty that it has followed you home. PART I — BEAUTIFUL STRANGERS: the woman on the river path, the guest room that should not exist, the passenger whose address is precise, plausible, and nowhere on the map. PART II — THE CITY AFTER MIDNIGHT: haunted platforms, phantom trains, and the apartment rule you must never break — do not answer the second intercom. PART III — CURSED PLACES: the village the census can no longer find, the tunnel where headlights go out, the shrine that lends people names. PART IV — THINGS THAT FOLLOW YOU HOME: because in these stories, the haunting never stays where you found it. For readers of Japanese horror, kaidan collections, and quiet, literary ghost stories — and for anyone who has ever counted the cars of the last train and gotten the number wrong. From the creators of the Japan After Dark channel. Read in any order. Count the candles now and then. 【Contents】 Part I — Beautiful Strangers 1. Her Shadow Arrives First 2. Room Six 3. The Woman Who Sells Umbrellas on Clear Days 4. Miss Aoyama Asks for Directions Part II — The City After Midnight 5. The Last Train Has One Extra Car 6. Platform Zero 7. The Convenience Store on Route 13 8. Do Not Answer the Second Intercom Part III — Cursed Places 9. The Village That Is Not on the Map Anymore 10. The Tunnel Where Headlights Go Out 11. The Shrine of Borrowed Names 12. Summer House Rules Part IV — Things That Follow You Home 13. The Elevator Stops at a Floor That Isn't There 14. A Voicemail from Next Week 15. The Rental Room with Two Mirrors 16. She Is Still Walking （Introduction と Author's Note も収録しています） 【仕様】 ・形式: PDF（A5判・132ページ）＋ EPUB ・総語数: 37,761 words（全編英語） ・著者: Japan After Dark 【AI生成について】 本書のテキストおよび表紙画像には、AI生成コンテンツが含まれています。本文はAIが生成した英文をもとに構成し、表紙はAI生成イラストをもとに制作しました。収録作はすべてオリジナル作品です。既存の著作物の転載は含みません。 【ライセンス】 ・本商品は個人で読書をお楽しみいただくためのものです ・本文・画像の転載、再配布、転売、翻訳版の配布は禁止です ・引用は、出典を明記したうえで、一般的な引用の範囲内でお願いします 【ご注意】 ・デジタル商品のため、購入後の返品・返金はお受けできません ・PDFは一般的なPDFリーダーで、EPUBは対応リーダー／アプリでお読みいただけます