Japanese Gothic

Japanese Gothic

Author: Kylie Lee Baker Listening Length: 10h 7m
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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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Sen’s father told her to save the head. It would be a present for Lord Shimazu, on the day he rose again.

She’d cut down many bamboo stalks and imagined they were the throats of her enemies, but bamboo did not have eyes that stared

back at her in accusation, or gray lips that gasped for air that wouldn’t come, or sweaty hair that clumped up with blood.

She held the severed head of the spy up by its hair, and even though breath no longer whistled through his ruined windpipe,