I’ve recently played the two volumes of the visual novel Misericorde by XEECEE. I have some theories. The series is still not done, and I’m not sure if the third part will even be the story’s conc...

Benjamin Sachs went and blew himself up. So opens Paul Auster’s Leviathan. Maybe not in those exact words – actually, most definitely not – but that’s the gist of it. Benjamin Sachs – the narrator...

I was reading this post when I saw it mention that Ango Sakaguchi’s Non-Serial Murders was an anti-mystery. Given that I’m all about that, my interest was piqued. Last year, I’d come across an Eng...

I’m noticing a rising trend of me either covering or writing anti-mysteries. I wonder why that is? I think the idea of mystery stories that defy the conventions of its genre are particularly appea...

There’s a big part of me that wants to call Yutaka Maya’s A Sonata for Summer and Winter (alternative title: Parzival) one of the greatest mystery novels I’ve ever read. But, while it’s good and ce...

For all my intelligence, and all my rationality, and all my skepticism, I must confess to you, Dear Reader: I am cursed. I think we are all afforded some level of superstition. One that a lot of p...

What is it about people disappearing and leaving strange manuscripts behind? A group of friends finds itself at a loss when their friend, Cooper, sends them a story starring them – about them rece...

An Anti-Mystery. A group of friends gathers in a remote house for the first time in two years. This is the place where Kaya took his life. Tensions are high, to say the least. The snowstorm isn’...

Things always work out. As it happens, things today worked out in a way that led me to updating the blog! Finally! But I was, I suppose, a victim of circumstance even before today. Reading from m...

When Royham ‘Roy’ Malone – a shut-in, katana-wielding otaku – believes he witnessed the murder of his favorite v-tuber during a private one-on-one stream, he recruits his friend Iri to investigate....