For 210 yen ($2.20) a roll, Japanese citizens can make their trips to the loo a terrifying one. Next month, Hayashi Paper is releasing a new nine chapter novella printed on their rolls of toilet paper.
Each roll will bear (pardon the pun) several copies of Drop, written by Koji Suzuki, author of the horror story The Ring. The story, which is set in a public washroom, takes up approximately three feet of a toilet roll and can be read in just a few minutes.
In Japan, ghosts are traditionally believed to hide in bathrooms and due to religious beliefs, toilets are commonly found in a dark corner of the house. Parents would tease children their children by saying that a hairy hand might pull them down into the dark pool below. I’m sure that helped with toilet training.