True, Asian horror films, by far the most accessible horror product, have been enumerated and studied for some time in the West. The literature and comics remains to this day mostly unknown. As the 20th Century dawned, I started amassing a huge collection of notes and references on the subject of Asian horror. I searched libraries and reference books for other seekers of Asian horror culture. There were many in Japan and a number in China and Korean, but none in the West -- at least, none looking at literature, folklore and manga. The Library of Congress showed nothing on Asian horror literature written in English.
As the decades faded away, I began to get the vague intention of publishing some sort of book. With the advent of the Internet, I found a cheap way to publish and distribute my book. Originally titled Weird Orientalia, I later settled on the rather ambitious title, Asian Horror Encyclopedia. Written to awaken horror fandom to the new found lands, I failed to hire a proofreader or editor, thinking few people would actually read it. I assembled my scribblings in a alphabetical array of material, making a snapshot of the sketchy knowledge currently available.
I published it in the first year of the 21st Century. Unadvertised and unheralded, it sold slowly over the past two years. But in the last nine months, university libraries started buying it. Perhaps the interest is there. So I'm carrying on.