An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave using EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.

Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.

A STUNNING NEW NOVEL FROM ONE OF THE BEST-SELLING AUTHORS OF ALL TIME! Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. ""I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. That combo made Hard Case Crime the perfect venue for this book, which is one of my favorites. I also loved the paperbacks I grew up with as a kid, and for that reason, we're going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being. Joyland will be coming out in paperback, and folks who want to read it will have to buy the actual book."" - Stephen King

裕行和高中時期的學長新井再度相遇。體會到活著不容易的新井，展現出陰暗的一面。另一方面，玲兒在曾經發生過自殺事件的房裡找到了遺書。上面有父親所率領的宗教團體標誌……玲兒的身世之謎終於解開，波濤洶湧的完結篇！

裕行和極力想自殺的女友柚希一同前往樹海。他們被死亡囚禁、意識朦朧，在眼前看到的是…… 除此之外，一張在工作中翻出的照片，卻牽扯出了一段意想不到的深沉悲傷記憶與玲兒的過去…… © Sho KITAGAWA 2008 本書特色 本書角川書店青年漫畫雜誌《COMIC CHARGE》（現已停刊）上連載的作品，以死亡現場清掃業這種特殊行業為背景，探討生與死的意義。

裕行和玲兒連同大量貓屍被關在地下室。在黑暗中，兩人看到的是什麼？由於母親始終無法接受哥哥的死，讓裕行開始逃避家人，卻也因此終於使他被捲入另一個性命交關的事件中…

裕行正式成為清掃公司「SWEEPERS」的員工了。在那裡除了玲兒之外，還有許多個性不同的同事，也同樣從事著這份嚴酷的工作。某天，在玲兒與裕行身上卻發生了某件事…

大學生岡崎裕行原本日子過得渾渾噩噩，卻因為長期繭居的大哥自殺令他大受打擊，陷入恐懼與絕望中。而在兄長死去的現場，出現了一名神秘男子三輪玲兒，他自稱是從事死亡現場掃除與清理的「清掃人」，也將裕行帶進了這個從未體驗的職業…

Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.