Ayatsuji Yukito

Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly multiple murder the year before. Predictably, they get picked off one by one by an unseen murderer. Is there a madman on the loose? What connection is there to the earlier murders? The answer is a bombshell revelation which few readers will see coming.

A two chapters prologue of Another about the story of Mikami Reiko in her highschool day.

26 years ago, in a third-year classroom of a middle school, there was a student named Misaki. As an honors student who was also good at sports, the charming girl was popular with her classmates. When she suddenly died, her classmates decided to carry on as if she was still alive until graduation. Then, in the spring of 1998, a boy named Kouichi Sakakibara transfers to that classroom, and he grows suspicious of the fearful atmosphere in that classroom. In particular, there is a beautiful, aloof girl named Misaki Mei who wears an eyepatch and is always alone drawing pictures.

\[Please read it, alone, at night.] — so went the enclosed letter, unveiling a manuscript for the story of a peculiar incident set in a provincial town…. A gem of horror.. 1 • 再生 (Reproduction) 2 • 特別料理 (Odd Dishes) 3 • 眼球綺譚 (The Tale of the Eyeball) 4 • 鉄橋 (A Bridge of Iron) 5 • 最後の記憶 (The Final Memory) 6 • 人間じゃない (Not Human) 6.5 • 原作者によるあとがき風解説 (Afterword-Style Commentary by the Original Author)