Japanese Gothic

Japanese Gothic

Author: Kylie Lee Baker Listening Length: 10h 7m

In this lyrical, wildly inventive horror novel interwoven with Japanese mythology, two people living centuries apart discover a door between their worlds. October, 2026: Lee Turner doesn’t remember how or why he killed his college roommate. The details are blurred and bloody. All he knows is he has to flee New York an...

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Chapter Seventeen The Legend of Urashima Tarō, Part II

The turtle carried the fisherman named Urashima Tarō to the bottom of the sea. At first, the man worried he would drown, but

he found he could breathe in the salt water as if it was the clearest air of a summer sky. Together, the fisherman and the

turtle traveled down and down into the sea, and at last arrived at the palace of the Dragon God. It was carved of seashells

and pearls, draped with seaweed garlands. Fish floated around it in glistening constellations.