Masako Mori (? ??? Mori Masako, born January 4, 1944) is the pen name of Masako Fukae (???? Fukae Masako) a Japanese author, mystery writer, horror writer and historical novelist.
Mori was born in Yokohama, in the Kanagawa Prefecture.
She attended Hokkaido Hakodate Nishi High School and graduated from Nara Women's University.
She then worked as a magazine and weekly magazine reporter.
In 1979, her first published work, the short story "Ballad in Blue" (????·??·???,Barado in buru ) won the 33 Shosetsu Gendai Shinjinsho Award (???????).
Her early works contained elements of mystery and suspense while her later works increased her scope of interest to the genre of horror and historical novel.