June 22–28, 2026
Stories where the dead don’t rest and the past refuses to stay buried. Ghosts drift through these pages — some vengeful, some heartbroken, all unforgettable.
A middle school class haunted by a decades-old death where each spring brings fresh casualties — Ayatsuji's mystery unfolds with the creeping dread of a curse that feeds on the living, indifferent to their innocence.
by Wu Cheng'en
A mischievous immortal trapped beneath a mountain for five centuries — Wu Cheng'en's epic transforms the Monkey King's restless imprisonment into a pilgrimage where the past's weight becomes the very path forward.
A brilliant cultivator returns from the dead in another man's borrowed body — seeking answers for a past that consumed him, only to discover the ghosts of his choices are far more dangerous than any demon.
by Uketsu
A cursed photograph, a vanished person, a house that shouldn't exist — Uketsu's interlocking stories slowly reveal themselves as a single haunted puzzle, where each tale destabilizes the last. Japanese internet horror at its most cunningly constructed.
A Korea haunted by industrialization and recent violence seeps through these stories — Lee's characters carry ghosts both literal and psychic, their everyday compromises shadowed by what the nation has tried to forget.