Mail Volume 1

Private detective Reiji Akiba has a theory about those awkward moments and weird coincidences we all encounter in life. They are actually encounters with the dead-their way of sending us a message. But you may not want to open such strange mail from beyond-not unless you can see the ghostly attachment, like Akiba can. And not unless you carry a gun that can kill what isnt alive, like Akibas aptly named Kagutsuchi, "the tool between God and earth" . . . digging a divine grave to lay to rest the evil dead.

Volume 1 of Mail opens with a models photo shoot at what was a lovely riverside. But someones thrown their trash away here: human bones. When the negatives in the darkroom reveal hidden horror, its time for the magazine to hire Akiba. The answers lie in the secret basement of a shunned house . . . but they dont lie peacefully!

• Mail was recently made into a live-action Japanese horror movie starring Chiaki Kuriyama - "Go-Go Yubari" from Kill Bill.