J-Horror

There was something very different about this reading that made it extremely interesting. Taking a look at some of the stories in Kwaidan was a very different take on the horror genre. The spirits in the stories often fell more into a grey area rather than being good or evil. It often took some poor action by the living to cause a spirit to do something harmful. Some of the spirits were very cunning and their ability to lure people in was more frightening than the spirit itself. These stories were very strong at building tension and making you afraid of the simplest things. I've read a few mangas that dealt with situations similar to the stories in Kwaidan. Something that seemed common was the idea of a spirit not always killing someone but instead doing something to them to curse them. A curse seems to take the idea of haunting and amplifying it by adding some sort of physical ailment. The J-Horror stories have an aire of unpredictability of them that sets them apart from other horror that often can be quite predictable.