Love After Death and Other Stories

A stranger stops a Japanese soldier on a Vladivostok street and asks him to decide his fate. His story involves hidden jewels, a young comrade, a devastated royal house, and a love he believes has survived death. Yet no one will believe him.

Around this unsettling confession, seven shorter works reveal other sides of Yumeno Kyūsaku’s imagination. A detective searches for a wife who supposedly stole money before she existed. A child prepares for the wrong school day. A doll continues smiling after its destruction. The eclipsed moon performs a terrible drama, while a silent film scenario makes hands and tears carry an entire investigation.

This complete English collection also includes the author’s candid reflections on writing The Supernatural Drum. Every story, essay paragraph, poem line, and film direction is preserved in the supplied order. Notes explain uncertain readings, period references, and contradictions without resolving the fiction’s ambiguities. Translated directly from the Japanese. AI-assisted translation.