Kawai Arisa

Kyoko's grandfather makes a strange request of her on his deathbed... That she kill her own father, who has been hidden away in a mountain cave feeding on carrion because he is --- the Centipede King! Originally published in the March 1995 issue of Suspense & Horror.

A girl and her friends pay a surprise visit to their beloved senpai at his remote village, just as a strange festival to honor that village's "Silkworm God" is about to begin....

Emi excitedly awaits her baby sister's arrival and, when her mother returns from the hospital, she is devastated to learn that her sister didn't survive. When she is gifted a doll by her aunt to make up for her loss, the horror begins... Originally published in the December 1994 issue of Suspense & Horror.