Dr Chiho Nakagawa is a Professor at Nara Women’s University in Nara, Japan. Her research interests include American women’s literature, Gothic novels, and more recently, crime fiction. Chiho has published in various international and Japanese journals and contributed book chapters, including “Safe Sex with the Defanged Vampires: New Vampire Heroes in Twilight and the Southern Vampire Mysteries” (2011). Her contribution to Asian Gothic lies largely in her discussion of Seishi Yokomizo—who turned her interest into crime fiction—which appeared in Transnational Horror Across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies (2013). She also translated David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas to Japanese (2013).