MONKEY New Writing from Japan, Volume 6: HORROR
edited-anthology · First published 2026
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Ted Goossen is a Canadian scholar and literary editor emeritus at York University in Toronto. His editorial work centers on Japanese literature in English translation, including The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories and the bilingual literary anthologies and journals Monkey Business and MONKEY New Writing from Japan, which he co-edited with Motoyuki Shibata. He has also translated Japanese literature, especially works by Haruki Murakami, Hiromi Kawakami, and Naoya Shiga; translation-only works are excluded from this authored/editorial bibliography.
edited-anthology · First published 2026
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Goossen's principal standalone editorial anthology and a concise introduction to his work as an editor of Japanese literature in English.
The first volume of his foundational English-language anthology series.

The first volume of the successor MONKEY anthology series.
Read in order
anthology-series · completed
An English-language annual anthology of contemporary and classic Japanese literature, including fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, translations, and graphic work.
Book 1 · edited-anthology · 2011
Book 2 · edited-anthology · 2012
Book 3 · edited-anthology · 2013
Book 4 · edited-anthology · 2014
Book 5 · edited-anthology · 2015
Book 6 · edited-anthology · 2016
Book 7 · edited-anthology · 2017
anthology-series · ongoing
The successor anthology series to Monkey Business, presenting contemporary and classic Japanese literature in themed annual volumes.
Book 1 · edited-anthology · 2020
Book 2 · edited-anthology · 2021
Book 3 · edited-anthology · 2022
Book 4 · edited-anthology · 2023
Book 5 · edited-anthology · 2024
Book 6 · edited-anthology · 2026
Outside the series
edited-anthology · 1997