屍鬼

Shiki

Author

Fuyumi Ono

Language

Japanese

Year

1989-2002

Country

Japan

Genre

Novel

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Shiki is a Japanese horror novel written by Fuyumi Ono. It was originally published in two parts by Shinchosha in 1998, and was then reprinted into five parts in 2002. The story is about a small Japanese village named Sotoba, which is plagued by bizarre deaths caused by what seemed to be an epidemic. However, when Toshio Ozaki, the hospital dean, performs his own investigations, he discovers vampires, known as "Shiki" living in their midst.