House of Insects

Short stories collection full of darkness, the characters' daily lives are turned upside down overnight, while anxiety makes them gradually sinking into madness. For example the story of a woman that, after fleeing her violent husband, suddenly believe she is an insect; another story narrates of a devoted wife living in terror after being caught cheating on her husband; another one is centered on a man wrongly accused of the murder of his wife and daughter, who has a strange experience on the eve of his execution; or the journey of a young girl whose destiny changes when she meets two men on a beach...

Mushi-tachi no Ie: A woman who enters a catatonic state after her husband attacks her thinking that she cheated on him. While in the coma she believes she gained the ability to shapeshift into different insects… a terrifying story about unstable marriages!