Top Light Novel Like Stitches (Kai, Sasu) [2026 List]

A tumor shaped like a man’s face slowly moves across a woman’s body. The sea shoots glowing balls into the sky, much to the distress of beachgoers. And a girl dressed up for a holiday has no eyes, no nose, nothing—her face is a total blank.

Hirokatsu Kihara pens true stories of unsolved mysteries, stitched together with page after page of Junji Ito’s original illustrations in this collection of nine eerie tales and a bonus manga story.



1) Kao (顔)
2) Toshoshitsu (図書室)
3) Umi kara... (海から…)
4) O-Bon (お盆)
5) Engeki Happyoukai (演劇発表会)
6) Folk Dance (フォークダンス)
7) Shichigosan (七五三)
8) Yuki no Futta Hi (雪の降った日)
9) Kuchibiru (唇)
10) Natsu no Sotsugyou Ryouko (夏の卒業旅行, The Summer Time Graduation Trip); manga

Stitches has finished publishing and it has 10 Chapters. It is also Known as: 怪、刺す, The Summer Time Graduation Trip

Genres: Horror , Seinen