• Blog:  内田春菊オフィシャルブログ 「基礎体温日記Ⅱ」
• Amazon.co.jp 内田 春菊 著者ページ (paid link)
• Shungicu UCHIDA - Anime News Network

• Asami Mitsuhiko Satsujin Jiken (浅見光彦殺人事件) and Tama Kohan Satsujin Jiken (多摩湖畔殺人事件), drawn by Tsugumi Tsukishima (月嶋つぐ美)
• Bara no Satsujin (薔薇の殺人), drawn by Shōko Toba (鳥羽笙子)
• Biwako Shuukou Satsujin Ka (琵琶湖周航殺人歌), drawn by Miyuki Tokitomo (時友美如)
• Finale no Nai Satsujin (終幕のない殺人), drawn by Matsuri Akino (秋乃茉莉)
• Fuusou no Shiro (風葬の城) and Togakushi Densetsu Satsujin Jiken (戸隠伝説殺人事件), drawn by Fumiko Nagao (長尾文子)
• "Hagiwara Sakutarou" no Bourei (「萩原朔太郎」 の亡霊), by Yuu Satomi (里見尤)
• Hakata Satsujin Jiken (博多殺人事件), by Ryouko Shitou (市東亮子)
• Ueno Yanaka Satsujin Jiken (上野谷中殺人事件), by Yuu Eguchi (えぐちゆう)

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 内田 康夫 著者ページ (paid link)
• Amazon.com Yasuo Uchida Author Page (paid link)

• Amazon.co.jp 上田 信舟 著者ページ (paid link)
• Shinshu UEDA - Anime News Network

Subaru Ueno (上野すばる)

GHC Bibliography

Links

• Blog:  上野すばるのブログ
• Amazon.co.jp 上野 すばる 著者ページ (paid link)

Kaya Uesugi* (上杉かや)

Wrote the story for Glass no Me (硝子心眼), drawn by Tsugumi Tsukishima (月嶋つぐ美).

Mitsuru Uguisu (うぐいすみつる)

GHC Bibliography

Links

• Amazon.co.jp うぐいす みつる 著者ページ (paid link)

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Abi Umeda (梅田阿比)

Creator of the Mystery Bonita (ミステリーボニータ) title Kujira no Kora wa Sajou ni Utau (クジラの子らは砂上に歌う).  VIZ released the series in English under the name Children of the Whales.  The title was also made into an animated series.

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 梅田 阿比 著者ページ (paid link)
• Amazon.com Abi Umeda Author Page (paid link)
• Abi UMEDA - Anime News Network

Hana Umeno (梅野花)

GHC Bibliography

Kazuo Umezu (楳図かずお)

Links

• Homepage:  楳図かずお情報サイト
• Amazon.co.jp 楳図 かずお 著者ページ (paid link)
• Amazon.com Kazuo Umezu Author Page (paid link)
• Kazuo UMEZU - Anime News Network

Kaoru Uozumi (魚住かおる)

GHC Bibliography

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 魚住 かおる 著者ページ (paid link)

• Amazon.co.jp 浦川 佳弥 著者ページ (paid link)
• Kaya URAKAWA - Anime News Network

• Amazon.co.jp 浦川 まさる 著者ページ (paid link)

Mame Usaya (兎屋まめ)

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 兎屋まめ 著者ページ (paid link)

Keiko Ushijima (牛島慶子)

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 牛島 慶子 著者ページ (paid link)
• Keiko USHIJIMA - Anime News Network

Mystery novelist; he wrote the story for Hourou Tantei Shinano Jouji no Jikenbo:  Yuurei Byoutou (放浪探偵　信濃譲二の事件簿　幽霊病棟, drawn by Sohta Kazamatsuri (風祭壮太).

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 歌野 晶午 著者ページ (paid link)

GHC Bibliography

Links

• Amazon.co.jp うつぎ 鳥子 著者ページ (paid link)

Shinji Wada (和田慎二)

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 和田 慎二 著者ページ (paid link)
• Shinji WADA - Anime News Network

Haruka Waki (和気はるか)

GHC Bibliography

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 和気 はるか 著者ページ (paid link)

• Homepage:  Twin Castle (Japanese only)
• Kyo WATANABE (mangaka) - Anime News Network

• Amazon.co.jp わたなべ まさこ 著者ページ (paid link)
• Masako WATANABE (manga artist) - Anime News Network

Mizuki Watanabe (渡辺瑞樹)

GHC Bibliography

Links

• Homepage:  瑞樹の全力漫画家坂
• Amazon.co.jp 渡辺 瑞樹 著者ページ (paid link)
• Mizuki WATANABE (manga artist) - Anime News Network

• Amazon.co.jp 渡辺 直美 著者ページ (paid link)

Nobue Watanabe (渡那部伸枝)

GHC Bibliography

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 渡那部 伸枝 著者ページ (paid link)

• Amazon.co.jp 亘理 なおみ 著者ページ (paid link)

Occultist and horror author.  His novel The Devil Rides Out was translated into Japanese as Kokuma Dan (黒魔団), which was in turn adapted into the girls’ horror comic Shuumatsu wa Mato London (週末は魔都ロンドン) by Eri Nakanuki (中貫えり).

Links

• Amazon.co.jp デニス・ホイ−トリ− 著者ページ (paid link)
• Amazon.com Dennis Wheatley Author Page (paid link)

Noir mystery writer; his short story Jane Brown’s Body was made into Shisha e no Engage Ring (死者への婚約指輪) by Yoshiko Suganuma (菅沼美子).

Links

• Amazon.com Cornell Woolrich Author Page (paid link)

See Kato Yagi (加藤山羊).

Author of the novel Makai Tenshou (魔界転生), on which Shōko Toba (鳥羽笙子)’s Makai Tenshou:  Yume no Ato (魔界転生　 夢の跡) and Naoko Kugo (九後奈緒子)’s Makai Tenshou:  Beato no Koushin* (魔界転生　 聖者の行進) were based.

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 山田 風太郎 著者ページ (paid link)
• Amazon.com Fûtarô Yamada Author Page (paid link)
• Futaroh YAMADA - Anime News Network

Nari Yamada (山田也)

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 山田 也 著者ページ (paid link)
• Nari YAMADA - Anime News Network

• Amazon.co.jp 山岸 凉子 著者ページ (paid link)
• Ryouko YAMAGISHI - Anime News Network

• Amazon.com Kotetsuko Yamamoto Author Page (paid link)
• Kotetsuko YAMAMOTO - Anime News Network

Mayuri Yamamoto (山本まゆり)

An incredibly prolific comics creator, credited with over 120 volumes, not even counting the many reworkings and reprints.  Her first major title was the "true horror" series Mayuri no Shock Report (魔百合の恐怖報告), at least partly written by spiritualist Reiko Terao (寺尾玲子).  Her most popular title, juding by the many editions and sequels, was the Reinousha Ogata Katsumi Series (霊能者緒方克巳シリーズ).  Her ladies' horror title Reset was made into a live-action TV series.

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 山本まゆり 著者ページ (paid link)
• Amazon.com Mayuri Yamamoto Author Page (paid link)

Wrote the storylines for Henshin Tenshou Denki Hen:  Akai Hayate (変身転生伝奇編　 紅いハヤテ), the Kasumi-kun no Abunai Seikatsu (霞くんの危険な生活) series, and Saotome Azusa Mystery File (早乙女あずさ事件簿), all drawn by Chiyomi Itani (井澗千代美).

Links

• Osamu YAMASAKI - Anime News Network

• Blog:  ほらふき山日記
• Amazon.co.jp 山下 友美 著者ページ (paid link)
• Amazon.com Tomomi Yamashita Author Page (paid link)
• Tomomi YAMASHITA - Anime News Network

Maki Yamato* (大和真紀)

Credited with the original concept for the Channeling Taiken Ki (チャネリング体験記) series by Sale Taki (瀧清流).

Kaya Urakawa (浦川佳弥) adapted Satsujin Kippu wa Heart-iro (殺人切符はハート色) and Kyouto Meiro Chizu wa Clover-iro (京都迷路地図はクローバー色), the first two novels of his long-running Seiko (星子) mystery series, as well as illustrating several others.  Incidentally, most of the original novel series featured illustrations by Ayumi Hattori (服部あゆみ).

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 山浦 弘靖 著者ページ (paid link)
• Hiroyasu YAMAURA - Anime News Network

Yamazaki Toru (山咲トオル)

Yamazaki is probably better known for his work in the entertainment industry.  But he has also drawn several girls’ horror comics, perhaps because he is a fan of Kazuo Umezu (楳図かずお).

GHC Bibliography

Links

• Official site:  山咲トオル／トル子キキョウ
• Amazon.com Toru Yamazaki Author Page (paid link)
• Toru YAMAZAKI - Anime News Network

Kentaro Yano (矢野健太郎)

Comics artist who drew Free Radical (フリーラジカル), published by Akita Shoten (秋田書店) under Horror Comics Special (ホラーコミックススペシャル).  He has otherwise only released boys' and men's comics, including the Jashin Densetsu Series* (邪神伝説シリーズ), released as the English electronic series The Challenger to Great Old Ones.  He also draws adult comics under the name Yantarou Keno (毛野楊太郎).

Links

• Homepage:  (Japanese only)
• Amazon.co.jp 矢野 健太郎 著者ページ (paid link)
• Kentaro YANO - Anime News Network

GHC Bibliography

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 八瀬 惣子 著者ページ (paid link)

GHC Bibliography

Creator of famous Japanese detective Kousuke Kindaichi (金田一耕助), he published dozens of novels and short stories.  Yakouchuu (夜光虫) and Kamen Gekijou (仮面劇場) were the basis for Ryoko Takashina (高階良子)’s Chimamire Kannon (血まみれ観音) and Shinju-iro no Kamen (真珠色の仮面), respectively.  JET adapted a considerable number of Yokomizo’s titles into comics:

• Akuma ga Kitarite Fue o Fuku (悪魔が来りて笛を吹く)
• Akuma no Chouji (悪魔の寵児)
• Akuma no Temari Uta (悪魔の手毬唄)
• Akuryoutou (悪霊島)
• Gokumontou (獄門島)
• Honjin Satsujin Jiken (本陣殺人事件)
• Inugami-Ke no Ichizoku (犬神家の一族)
• Nemureru Hanayome (睡れる花嫁)
• Yatsuhaka Mura (八つ墓村)

Links

• Amazon.co.jp 横溝 正史 著者ページ (paid link)
• Amazon.com Seishi Yokomizo Author Page (paid link)

GHC Bibliography

Links

• Blog:  (Japanese only)
• Amazon.co.jp 米谷 たかね 著者ページ (paid link)
• Amazon.com Takane Yonetani Author Page (paid link)
• Takane YONETANI - Anime News Network

Utata Yoshikawa (吉川うたた)

GHC Bibliography

Links

• Blog:  日々是口実
• Amazon.co.jp 吉川 うたた 著者ページ (paid link)

• Amazon.co.jp 好美 のぼる 著者ページ (paid link)

Yu (結布)

Links

• Homepage:  mol (Japanese only)

Satol Yuiga (結賀さとる)

Links

• Homepage:  Eclipse-Rabbit (Japanese only)
• Amazon.co.jp 結賀 さとる 著者ページ (paid link)
• Amazon.com Satol Yuiga Author Page (paid link)
• Satol YUIGA - Anime News Network

GHC Bibliography

Links

• Amazon.co.jp ゆめの よう 著者ページ (paid link)

Taimu Zenigata (銭形たいむ)

Links

• Homepage:  (Japanese only)