If You Curse Another and Other Writings

A newspaper reporter thinks he has rescued a woman from a police cordon. Soon his generous impulse, his appetite for pleasure and a rival's ingenuity threaten his livelihood.

With the story come five instalments of Kunieda Shirō's "Microphone" magazine column and an essay on the flavour of another world in literature: brisk, opinionated pieces on detective fiction, the uncanny and the writer's trade, first published 1926–1930.

A new English translation from the Japanese. AI-assisted translation, prepared and edited by Valentin Sarić.