The Girl in the Crawlspace

Burned out from a soul-crushing job in Tokyo and diagnosed with adjustment disorder, Takahashi Yutaro flees to the countryside to recover—alone, in his late grandmother's crumbling seventy-five-year-old estate at the foot of the Kamuro mountains. He expects silence. He expects solitude. He expects nothing but time to heal. Instead, at two in the morning, he hears something scraping across the kitchen floor. A shadow no bigger than his palm. Tiny footprints with five perfect fingers pressed int