GOTH YORU NO SHOU
© Otsuichi 2002, 2005
Edited by KADOKAWA SHOTEN
First published in Japan in 2005 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo.
English translation © KADOKAWA CORPORATION
Translated by Andrew Cunningham
GOTH BOKU NO SHOU
© Otsuichi 2002, 2005
Edited by KADOKAWA SHOTEN
First published in Japan in 2005 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo.
English translation © KADOKAWA CORPORATION
Translated by Andrew Cunningham
GOTH BANGAIHEN MORINO WA KINENSHASHIN WO TORINIIKU NO MAKI
©Otsuichi 2008, 2013
Edited by KADOKAWA SHOTEN
First published in Japan in 2013 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo.
English translation rights arranged with KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo.
Translated by Jocelyne Allen
English translation © 2015 VIZ Media, LLC
Cover and interior design by Sam Elzway
All rights reserved.
No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the copyright holders.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Otsuichi, 1978–
[Gosu. English]
Goth / Otsuichi ; translated by Andrew Cunningham.
pages cm
Summary: “Morino is the strangest girl in school—how could she not be, given her obsession with brutal murders? And there are plenty of murders to grow obsessed with as the town in which she lives is a magnet for serial killers. She and her schoolmate will go to any length to investigate the murders, even putting their own bodies on the line. And they don’t want to stop the killer, but simply to understand him.” —Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-1-4215-8026-5 (paperback)
1. Teenagers—Fiction. 2. Serial murder investigation—Fiction. I. Cunningham, Andrew, 1979– translator. II. Title.
PL874.T78G6713 2013
895.6'36—dc23
2015015143
Haikasoru eBook edition
ISBN: 978-1-4215-8576-5
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