This book invites readers into the imaginative realm of Saran, where a hero summoned from Earth must rise against the Demon King and restore balance to a world on the edge of ruin. Told from the first-person perspective, these stories capture the spirit of a grand role-playing adventure—rich w...

This collection of Japanese folktale retellings takes classic stories like Momotaro, Urashima Taro, and The Old Man Who Made Trees Blossom and reimagines them with dark humor, unexpected twists, and tragic undertones. Exploring themes of greed, fate, and human folly, these tales reveal the often-...

Ono Renji is a biology major with an academic death wish. While his peers chase grants and publish safe papers, Renji studies cryptids. The creatures dismissed as folklore, pseudoscience, or outright jokes. He doesn’t claim they exist. He studies the patterns people refuse to ask about. That cu...

Following a meteor impact at Arctic Research Installation K-7, Task Unit Polaris-7 is dispatched to investigate a sudden communications blackout. Upon arrival, the team discovers evidence of a containment breach involving an extraterrestrial organism dubbed the Amarok, a cold-adaptive apex predat...