Horror writer Koji Suzuki‘s newest novella, “Drop”, is presented in an odd form: as a roll of toilet paper.
The Telegraph reports that Takaki Hayashi, vice president of “publisher” Hayashi Paper Corp. says the nine-chapter story is “the alarming story of an evil spirit that inhabits a toilet bowl.” Hayashi said “I’ve read the story and it’s very scary.”
The story is “set in a public toilet and plays on Japanese superstitions that ghosts and evil spirits inhabit the smallest room in the house, which is why they were traditionally relegated to the most distant part of the home. Parents still tell naughty children that a hairy hand will seize them when they have their pants around their ankles if they misbehave and drag them down into the dark water below.”
This isn’t Hayashi’s first venture into toilet paper with intellectual content. They have previously offered rolls with information on how to survive an earthquake. “Drop” is “printed in blue and is interspersed by splatters that are reminiscent of blood.” The story repeats every yard, and each roll costs ¥210 ($2.20).
Suzuki’s other works include Dark Water, Spiral, and The Ring, the story of a videotape that causes the death of anyone who sees it.