Abstract
This paper deals with “the uncanniness” in Haruki Murakami’s collection of seven
short stories, “The Ghost of Lexington”, published by Bunshun Library in 1999.
Murakami states that the uncanniness arises from the bottom of human consciousness.
The strange stories in this book include fairy-tale-like stories about ghosts and monsters
and stories about practical problems including disaster, war and bullying.
This journal article reveals the motive behind each story and describes the
arrangement of them (how the stories are organized), as well. The uncanniness
surrounding a human being results from a combination of reality and unreality, and this
idea is demonstrated to the readers by Murakami’s arrangement of the seven stories.
