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| Original Title | 悪魔祈祷書 |
|---|---|
| Author | 夢野 久作 |
| Genre | Detective & Mystery |
| Author Type | Male Author |
| Summary | In a rain-swept used bookstore, a respectable Tokyo professor's calm refuge is shattered by an eccentric bookseller's unsettling tale. He speaks of a legendary "Devil's Prayer Book"—a blasphemous, ancient tome rumored to corrupt souls and inspire atrocities, a volume that has mysteriously vanished from his shelves. But as the bookseller spins his yarn, a creeping dread takes root in the professor's mind. He begins to see chilling echoes between the book's dark lore and the recent, tragic unraveling of his own life. Is a malevolent, supernatural force truly at work, or is he caught in a meticulously crafted deception designed to shatter his very sanity? As the lines between truth and illusion blur, the professor must confront the terrifying possibility that the greatest evil lies not in ancient texts, but in the depths of human manipulation. |
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