Japanese Horror

Japanese Horror delves into psychological fear, steeped in elements of folklore, mythology, and the supernatural. Omnipresent themes may cover dark ambience, psychological distress, and menacing spirits.
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    • Penguin Classics
    • By: Lafcadio Hearn
    • Narrated by: Eleanor Matsuura
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help....

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    • By: Cassandra Khaw
    • Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
    • Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 704 ratings
    • Cassandra Khaw's Nothing but Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists....

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    • By: Eiji Yoshikawa, Charles S. Terry - translator
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 53 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,928 ratings
    • The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman. Miyamoto Musashi becomes a reluctant hero to a host of people whose lives he has touched and by whom he has been touched. Inevitably, he has to pit his skill against the naked blade of his greatest rival....

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    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • A Prequel to Tales of the Otori
    • By: Lian Hearn
    • Narrated by: J. Paul Boehmer, Julia Fletcher
    • Series: Tales of the Otori, Book 5
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,157 ratings
    • As The Silmarillion is to The Lord of the Rings, Liam Hearn's Heaven's Net Is Wide is to Tales of the Otori. This is the back story fans have been yearning for....

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    • By: Ryu Murakami, Ralph McCarthy - translator
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 324 ratings
    • In this gloriously over-the-top tale, Aoyama is a widower who has lived alone with his son ever since his wife died seven years before. A striking young former ballerina with a mysterious past catches his eye, but she's not the innocent young woman he imagines her to be....

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    • The New Japanese Minimalism
    • By: Fumio Sasaki, Eriko Sugita - translator
    • Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,637 ratings
    • Fumio Sasaki is not a minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo - he's just a regular guy who was stressed out and constantly comparing himself to others....

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    • Japanese Legends of Ghosts, Yokai, Yurei and Other Oddities
    • By: Lafcadio Hearn, Michael Dylan Foster - Foreword by
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In Ghostly Japan collects 12 ghostly stories from Lafcadio Hearn, deathless images of ghosts and goblins, touches of folklore and superstition, salted with traditions of the nation....

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    • By: 宮部みゆき
    • Narrated by: 佐野史郎
    • Length: 1 hr and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-22
    • Language: Japanese
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 長屋の“何でも屋”に舞い込んだ依頼は、木槌の物の怪退治!?深川三間町、八兵衛長屋の何でも屋・柳井源五郎右衛門は、ある日、娘の加奈から奇妙な頼みごとをされる。加奈が可愛がっている野良猫のタマは実は化け猫で、源五郎右衛門に話があるから聞いてやってほしいというのだ。半信半疑の源五郎右衛門だったが、ある夜、人間の姿に化けたタマが本当に訪ねてきた。あ然とする彼に、タマはさらに驚くべきことを告げる。 「悪さを

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    • By: Bill Schweigart
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Series: The Fatal Folklore Trilogy, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
    • Ben McKelvie believes he's moving up in the world when he and his fiancée buy a house in the cushy Washington, DC, suburb of Barcroft. Instead he's moving down - way down....

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    • The Unseen - Book Two
    • By: Brian Martinez
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • New town. Old demons. The Unseen continues… Running her small dojo in the corrupt city of Santa Fausta, Karen Kimura has spent her life in the ...

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    • Winter Nights, Book 3
    • By: Liz Maverick
    • Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg, Andrew Eiden
    • Series: Winter Nights, Book 3
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,262 ratings
    • Best-selling author Liz Maverick is back with this cozy, captivating holiday rom-com about finding love where you least expect it....

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    • By: Jack Heath
    • Narrated by: Hannah Monson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 794 ratings
    • Elise Glyk is a disgraced athlete. Her brother, Callum, is a well-liked teacher who has gone missing. In Elise’s search for her brother, they both become captured in a remote, abandoned farm....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Eto Mori
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • A beloved and best-selling classic in Japan, this groundbreaking tale of a dead soul who gets a second chance is perfect for listeners of The Midnight Library....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Taichi Yamada
    • Narrated by: Geoff Sugiyama
    • Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Screenwriter Harada is disconnected from the world. Lonely and jaded, he’s drifted apart from his son and is dismissive when approached with gestures of friendship, including from a lonely and mysterious tenant who lives in his mostly empty apartment building....

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    • 6k-words of sensual steamy mutant action fill this torrid tale up with hot and heavy scenes of hardcore erotic medical horror and pulpy paranormal smut!
    • By: Alice Crowley
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • "ALICE CROWLEY'S EROTIC STORIES ALWAYS HAVE SURPRISE ENDINGS!" ~ Hwk "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "ALICE ...

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    • By: Kelly Kitano
    • Narrated by: Jackie Wynn
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Tales of Japanese Hotwife is a bundle of Kelly Kitano’s steamy Japanese Hotwife stories, with the theme being taboo interracial encounters and off-limits attractions....

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    • Eleven Dark Tales
    • By: Yoko Ogawa
    • Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith, Johanna Parker
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband....

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