The Terror of the Thirteenth Personality (First English Translation of a Japanese Horror Novel)

Author: Yuusuke Takashi
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Publish Date: 2003-10-01
Features: Bold open, shy away. Young girl Himari Homari has the ability to empathize and can hear others' inner voices, meaning she knows what others are thinking. After the Great Hanshin earthquake in Japan, she took a special leave from Tokyo to participate in comforting disaster victims as a volunteer. She used her special talent to soothe many traumatized victims. During this time, she met a girl named Chihiro Moriya in a hospital. Through simple contact, Homari discovered that Chihiro suffers from a rare mental illness—dissociative identity disorder. Inside Chihiro, there are 13 different personalities coexisting, taking turns to control her actions. Homari deeply sympathizes with Chihiro's situation and talks to each personality one by one, trying to integrate them. When the 13th personality appears, Homari is stunned. It turns out that the 13th personality is a vengeful spirit that can detach from Chihiro's body, a murderer who can infiltrate a person's heart and stop its beating. Homari and her lover engage in a thrilling battle with the 13th personality.