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Madman’s HellAuthor: Yumeno Kyūsaku

Original Title	キチガイ地獄
Author	夢野久作
Genre	Detective & Mystery
Author Type	Male Author
Summary	A man awakens on Hokkaido’s wild riverbanks with no memory of his past, rescued by a wealthy coal magnate’s household. Adopted as heir to the Yamayama dynasty, he marries their enigmatic heiress, Ryūyo, whose capricious charm masks a tragic secret. Yet his newfound privilege unravels as fragmented visions haunt him—a shadowy reporter’s manipulations, a wife’s sudden suicide, and whispers of a bloodline cursed by madness. Desperate to reclaim his identity, he ventures into untamed mountains where a solitary cabin harbors grotesque truths: a feral family, a forgotten crime, and a life torn between two worlds. As reality blurs, he confronts chilling revelations—was his salvation a calculated lie? Who is the spectral figure haunting his dreams, and why does the name “Reporter A” stir primal dread? Layers of deception coil like Ishikari’s rapids, dragging him toward a precipice where sanity fractures. In gilded halls and primal forests, every memory resurrected threatens to unmask a monster—or a martyr—in a labyrinth of love, betrayal, and the hellish cost of buried sins.