100 Ghost Stories That will Lead to My Own Death

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Anji Matono

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Anji Matono

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I am a sucker for ghost story anthologies like this. Some stories linger, some flop, and then you have the framework to wonder about as well.

Also, sometimes fun art.

The conceit is that a grade schooler, depressed and suicidal, was told about these 100 ghost stories. He’ll summon a real ghost if he manages to get through all of them. And he tells them basically straight to us, the viewer. I really like seeing how telling these stories affects our main character.

In this volume, Night 8 (Fight) hit me the hardest. I reread it a few times. Stories that, when they switch perspective, fuck you up? My jam.

I’m really looking forward to reading more in the future.

Welcome to the Menagerie.

Here is where M logs their media activity. Partly because Goodreads is forgettable and keeping physical logs is harder. Sometimes M writes a lot. Sometimes M doesn’t write enough. It doesn’t matter. This is just a for-fun little blog so that M can remember what they thought about whatever they watched or read or played or. Whatever.


What is M?

I read. Voraciously. I have subscriptions to those book things on digital retailers. I consume books at nearly all hours. The hours I don’t spend reading? I’m writing. I’m drawing. I have a problem. I have a problem in that I love to read things that are in the same vein repeatedly. Book journals don’t work and as much as I text my friends screenshots of book passages, it doesn’t scratch the itch. Now I’m going to be doing… tiny… tiny book reports.


Truck-Kun Kill Count:


Books & Light Novels Read in 2025: 19/100
19%
Comics Read in 2025: 25/100
25%
Physical Owned Books Read: 400/662
60%


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