The graveyard apartment / Mariko Koike ; translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koike, Mariko, 1952- author.

Contributor:

Boehm, Deborah Boliver, translator.

Standardized Title:

Bochi o miorosu ie. English

Language:

English

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Young families--Fiction.

Young families.

Apartment houses--Fiction.

Apartment houses.

Basements.

Basements--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Horror fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Suspense fiction.

Physical Description:

324 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2016.

Summary:

A young married couple and their daughter move into a brand new apartment building built next to a graveyard. The couple is hiding a dark secret... and the apartment harbors a spector of evil. When terrifying events occur, others in the building start to move out until the family is left alone with someone... or something... lurking in the basement.

Notes:

"First published in Japan under the title Bochi o miorosu ie by Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd."--Verso title page.

"Originally published in Japan in 1986, Koike's novel is the suspenseful tale of a young family that believes it has found the perfect home to grow into, only to realize that the apartment's idyllic setting harbors the specter of evil and that longer they stay, the more trapped they become."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781250060549

1250060540

OCLC:

932576541

Publisher Number:

99969654592