High Anxiety
The Graveyard Apartment
By Mariko Koike
17 Sep, 2025
Translation
Mariko Koike’s 1986 The Graveyard Apartment is a stand-alone suspense novel. Translation is by Deborah Boliver Boehm.
Real estate in boom-era Japan is eye-wateringly expensive. Thus, a 900 square foot apartment at a mere ¥35,000,0001, half the going rate for such a palatial abode, is too good for Misao and Teppei Kano to turn down.
Why such a reasonable price? Location, location, location.