Jorogumo
December 1748. In the Hida Mountains, Yumegawa's men have been disappearing since the fall-without a trace, without witnesses, without explanation. Lord Matsumura sends five samurai. Katsuro Tetsuo, their leader, is no stranger to difficult missions. But not this one.
What they discover in this mountain village is not found in any military manual: the Jorōgumo, a creature two hundred and forty years old, half-woman, half-spider, who chooses her prey by the scent of desire and learns each man's weaknesses before calling him.
To kill her, two conditions must be met simultaneously. Two conditions that no one has ever fulfilled since the creature came into existence. And even if they are-the question remains: at what cost?
A novel of hunting and resistance. A novel about what shame protects, what guilt reveals, and how a group of people who were never meant to be together hold on during the longest night of the year.
And about the blank page left behind by everything that words cannot fully express.
Phil Morrison
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