PTSD Radio 2-in-1 (2022)

The closest thing here to Ito's short stories, and also the least like them. Masaaki Nakayama tells fragmentary, interlocking ghost stories, most only a few pages long, that refuse to explain themselves: a figure half-glimpsed in a doorway, a scene that simply stops. The fear builds through repetition and missing pieces rather than a single grotesque reveal. Best read at night in short doses. Kodansha's English print edition comes as three 2-in-1 omnibus books, and the last one adds Nakayama's diary-style true stories.