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CaptiveAuthor: Unno Juza
| Original Title | 俘囚 |
|---|---|
| Author | 海野 十三 |
| Genre | War & Social Literature |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In a haze of alcohol and reckless desire, a disillusioned wife and her younger lover conspire to murder her estranged husband—a reclusive doctor obsessed with macabre experiments. Their violent act unleashes a nightmare: the lover’s face mutates grotesquely, and the supposedly dead husband returns, his body unnervingly altered. As paranoia tightens its grip, the wife discovers chilling truths about her spouse’s surgical horrors—limbs severed, organs rearranged, humanity stripped away. Trapped in a labyrinth of dread, she becomes both captive and experiment, her body transformed into a monstrous testament to her husband’s deranged genius. Detectives unravel a trail of impossible crimes linked to the doctor’s chilling research, but salvation remains elusive. Shadows whisper of vengeance and madness, where love curdles into obsession, and the line between victim and perpetrator blurs. A tale of gothic horror unfolds, weaving psychological torment with visceral body horror, as buried secrets claw their way into the light—and survival demands confronting a truth more horrifying than death itself. |
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