Matthew Meyer

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 27 A ghost has cursed a family, causing every member to die off young. Will they be able to stop the curse before the last member dies off and the bloodline dies out? 🔥👻🔥 #ayokaiaday #halloween #ghosts www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 26 🔥🔥🔥DEMON FIRE!🔥🔥🔥 #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

I was busy with an event all weekend so I wasn't on Bluesky, but here is Sunday's A-Yokai-A-Day as well: #ayokaiaday #yokai www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

I was busy with an event this weekend, so I wasn't on Bluesky, but here is Saturday's A-Yokai-A-Day: #ayokaiaday #yokai www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 23 Ghosts are said to come back because of unfinished business. Apparently they can also come back to make sure the proper paperwork gets filed for their burial. You cannot escape bureaucracy even in death. 👻📜 #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

━━━━*＼Yokai Meetup AP Gallery／*━━━━ 　　　　　 Artist : Matthew Meyer 　　　　　　　　@yokai.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Hop to It! That's all for Matt's AP releases for now. We'll share more as they're finished, so stay tuned!👍 #mtg #artistproof #yokai-meetup

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 22 Would you have the courage to eat a ghost? I wonder what it tastes like... 🪶 #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 21 Tonight's tale serves as a good reminder to always be kind to the less fortunate. You never know when someone might turn out to be a fox with really good real estate and business advice! 🦊 #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

━━━━*＼Yokai Meetup AP Gallery／*━━━━ 　　　　　 Artist : Matthew Meyer 　　　　　　　　@yokai.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This is the Ouni (a Japanese yōkai) that inspired the illustration! #mtg #artistproof #yokai-meetup

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 20 "I've heard of ghostwriting before, but this is ridiculous!" Or something like that... I hope you enjoy this mysterious and bizarre tale! #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

━━━━*＼Yokai Meetup AP Gallery／*━━━━ 　　　　　 Artist : Matthew Meyer 　　　　　　　　@yokai.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ It's the frog from Chōjū-giga!🐸 #mtg #artistproof #yokai-meetup

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 19 It's been a long and frustrating day. Here is a deeply depressing story to top it off. 🙊🦅 #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

For Kickstarter backers in the US, there is an important update on shipping to the US here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/osa...

Literally JUST began fulfilling a Kickstarter this week with ~2000 orders, only to discover that Japan Post stealth changed the rules for shipping to the USA yet AGAIN just five days ago... and now everything is completely fucked. I want to rip my eyeballs out of my skull. 😡

お知らせ 今週末の日曜日（25日）13時から、たけふ菊人形で妖怪トークショー「奇談を語る」をします。ぜひお越しください！ I will be participating in a yokai & kidan talk this Sunday (10/25) at 1pm at Takefu Kiku Ningyo. I hope to see you there! 👺👻👹🦊🦝🦦🐓

Tonight's A-Yokai-A-Day tale also deals with a hitodama, although this time it is from a direct eye-witness account. What other explanation could there be? 🔥💀 #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

━━━━*＼Yokai Meetup AP Gallery／*━━━━ 　　　　　 Artist : Matthew Meyer 　　　　　　　　@yokai.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A character holding up a Chaos Emerald from Secret Lair.💎 #mtg #artistproof #yokai-meetup

Tonight's A-Yokai-A-Day deals with a well-known phenomenon in Japanese folklore: the hitodama. Rest assured, the story below is in no way a fabrication! 100% truth, right here. 🔥 #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

━━━━*＼Yokai Meetup AP Gallery／*━━━━ 　　　　　 Artist : Matthew Meyer 　　　　　　　　@yokai.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A zombie, but with golden eyes and teeth—so gorgeous!✨ #mtg #artistproof #yokai-meetup

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 16 How do you tell the difference between an energy vampire and an ordinary old woman? Apparently, nothing is more monstrous than a woman who enjoys her life. #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 15 Today, Japan is known for giant monsters, like Godzilla. But in the Edo period, Japan was also known for giant monsters, like Ikuji. ⛵🐍💦 #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

━━━━*＼Yokai Meetup AP Gallery／*━━━━ 　　　　　 Artist : Matthew Meyer 　　　　　　　　@yokai.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Here’s the Moon Viewing series! 🍡 In Japan, it's a tradition to eat sweet rice dumplings (dango) while admiring the autumn moon.🌝 #mtg #artistproof #yokai-meetup

Tonight's tale is about the triumph of courage over evil spirits, but to be honest it is more of a tragedy for fox lovers. I actually suspect 100% of you will be rooting for the foxes. 🔥🦊🦊🔥 #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

━━━━*＼Yokai Meetup AP Gallery／*━━━━ 　　　　　 Artist : Matthew Meyer 　　　　　　　　@yokai.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Felt like sharing some of the commissioned APs! 🐰 Eventually, I'm planning to archive them all on my website too. *Only featuring pieces with granted permission. #mtg #artistproof

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 13 Japan is no stranger to ghosts of souls lost at sea—but is there any truth to these superstitions? An account from Sado claims there is. 🚣👻 #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 12! 🌉👻 Next time you're in Akihabara, if you pass over Shōheibashi, you can tell your friends that the ghost of this young samurai was spotted there over 200 years ago. #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 11 Plenty of scary stories feature premonitions of one's own death. However, not too many of them feature children predicting their own posthumous funerary name. 📜✍️ #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

Can you be *sure* that you are not being cursed by the gods right now? Can any of us be sure? In today's story, it seems pretty clear that a divine curse was involved. Remember, folks: Do NOT pick a god's herbs! 🌿 #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 9 When you're at a friend's house and their kid shows up to play with you, always check to make sure they have feet! 👻 #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

Strange things abound in today's A-Yokai-A-Day post! Imagine knowing exactly where you are to be buried, and your coffin is already there waiting for you! Well, that happened to one samurai, according to this tale... ⚰️ #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 7: "A Matter in Which It Is Difficult to Establish There Was No Yūrei" How do you prove there was no yūrei? And whose job is it to do so? 👻👶 #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

What would you do if you woke up in a hotel and there was a shadowy figure looming over your bed? 🛌🦊 Tonight's story is great nightmare fodder! A-Yokai-A-Day: A Matter in Which It Is Hard to Say There Was No Yōkai #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 5: Yūrei Service This seems like it could be a fun job! What kind of salary would you think someone hired as a yūrei takes home? #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

A-Yokai-A-Day for October 4: The Strange Death of an Actor A great story with a funny ending. I'd tell you more details but I was made to swear not to reveal them to anyone... www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/... #ayokaiaday

A-Yokai-A-Day, October 3: How a Maidservant’s Ghost Came to Her Master’s House 👻🍡 My question to you, readers: do you eat the dango or not? matthewmeyer.net/blog/2026/10... #ayokaiaday #halloween

Day 2 of A-Yokai-A-Day 2026. Tonight we'll look at a ghost story—not a scary one but a bittersweet one. 👻 It's nice to know that not all Japanese ghosts are the kind that crawl out of TV sets and twist your face around. #ayokaiaday www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

Alright everybody, you've been waiting for this all year: 🦊A-Yokai-A-Day starts now!👹 Join me in sharing yokai, ghosts, and kidan every day for the entirety of October. Every day a different story and illustration! Read today's below: #ayokaiaday matthewmeyer.net/blog/2026/10...

The other day I had someone accuse me of stealing content (art and writing) from yokai.com. What the hell am I even doing...???

It's almost October, guys! 🎃 You know what that means: 🦊👻A-Yokai-A-Day👺👹 is coming soon! matthewmeyer.net/blog/2026/09...

/／ 🐰 < Last 24 Hours: Blind Bidding Phase! \＼ 【Current Highest Bids】 ・Matthew Meyer & Sakyu Collab AP: ¥51,000 ・Sakyu Black & White Sketch AP: ¥44,000🔼 ・Rabbit & Persimmon Playmat: ¥16,000🔼 ・Skeleton & Fox Playmat: ¥16,000 ・Other items: No bids yet

This week's yokai: the Koganeyama monster! It haunted the forests of what is now part of Fukuoka Prefecture, attacking people who went into the mountains to collect firewood. It's carapace was strong enough to stop bullets! Read more for free on my Patreon: www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...

The auction for my and @sakyu0301.bsky.social's artist proofs and hand-drawn playmats from last week's signing event is now live, until 9/25! Bids from overseas and from Japan are accepted. Check out the auction below: yokai-meetup.jp?page_id=659

<Exclusive - 4 Auction Day Update! 📊✨> 【Current Bids】 ・Matthew Meyer & Sakyu Collab AP: ¥51,000 ・Sakyu B&W Sketch AP: ¥40,000 ・Rabbit & Persimmon Playmat: ¥12,000 ・Skeleton & Fox Playmat: ¥16,000 ・Other items: No bids yet

Did you know? --> All tiers of my Patreon get behind-the-scenes access to sketches and background information on each yokai that doesn't make it into the final posts on yokai.com! If you're curious about what yokai is coming next, join below! www.patreon.com/theyokaiguy/...