A wounded man flees across a desert and stumbles onto cursed ground. Elsewhere, a somewhat bumbling revolutionary attempts to spark change in the afternoon, while a handsome vampire with little taste for gothic theatrics navigates his peculiar existence. These are among the characters who inhabit the world of A Revolutionist in the Afternoon, a collection of five short stories by Matsushiro Jiro. The narratives are linked only by a shared atmosphere of dark fantasy and dark humor, where the supernatural and the mundane collide in unexpected ways. The title story introduces a would-be revolutionary whose ambition exceeds his competence, and a second story with the same title is not a direct sequel but an independent variation. The third story, Desert Witch, follows the wounded man’s encounter with a fearsome witch of the sands. The fourth, Takeyama’s Life, centers on a vampire who struggles with the trappings of his own mythos. The fifth story is not widely detailed but completes the volume with a similarly striking premise. The setting ranges across arid wastelands, occult backdrops, and modern or near-modern environments where magic and violence are ever-present. The tone is raw and provocative, blending absurdity with brutality, and the collection consistently explores themes of power, desire, and the futility of grand gestures.