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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In the house behind the sword ferns, there was a man, and a murderer, and a stain.

The house was nearly two centuries old, its walls accustomed to drinking up soot from charcoal burned through the long winters.

Its tatami mats had darkened from the sting of sunlight, hiding the footprints of the last family who lived there. The cypress

walls with tobacco varnish should have swallowed even the darkest stain whole, kept it safe and secret.

Chapter One Lee 30:59
Chapter Two Lee 23:09
Chapter Three Sen 28:21
Chapter Four Lee 23:18
Chapter Five Sen 22:14
Chapter Six Lee 16:30
Chapter Seven Sen 19:33
Chapter Eight The Legend of Urashima Tarō, Part I 00:06
Chapter Nine Sen 31:57
Chapter Ten Lee 17:47
Chapter Eleven Sen 15:11
Chapter Twelve Lee 14:29
Chapter Thirteen Sen 18:45
Chapter Fourteen Lee 26:18
Chapter Fifteen Sen 27:55
Chapter Sixteen Lee 26:10
Chapter Seventeen The Legend of Urashima Tarō, Part II 00:06
Chapter Eighteen Lee 16:27
Chapter Nineteen Sen 17:19
Chapter Twenty Lee 20:32
Chapter Twenty-One Sen 13:35
Chapter Twenty-Two Lee 37:32
Chapter Twenty-Three Lee 02:38
Chapter Twenty-Four Sen 04:02
Chapter Twenty-Five Lee 19:32
Chapter Twenty-Six Sen 06:03
Chapter Twenty-Seven Lee 03:39
Chapter Twenty-Eight Sen 12:03
Chapter Twenty-Nine Lee 21:54
Chapter Thirty Sen 21:59
Chapter Thirty-One Lee 05:41
Chapter Thirty-Two The Legend of Urashima Tarō, Part III 00:06
Chapter Thirty-Three Lee 26:28
Chapter Thirty-Four Sen 23:37
Chapter Thirty-Five Otohime 07:37
Chapter Thirty-Six The Last Letter of Iwasaki Sen 02:32

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