Japanese Horror Fiction

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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 70 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 696 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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    • 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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    • Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
    • By: Michael Dylan Foster
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 268 ratings
    • Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages....

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    • The Asian Saga, Book 1.1
    • By: James Clavell
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Series: The Asian Saga
    • Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,370 ratings
    • After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin....

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    • By: Kristen Simmons
    • Narrated by: Cia Court, Paul Dateh
    • Series: Death Games, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors—Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax—have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they’ve been summoned by the ghost of Ian, the friend they left for dead....

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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: Mizuki Tsujimura, Stephen Paul - translator
    • Narrated by: Edelyn Okano
    • Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The strange kid at school, the odd woman in the apartment building, the troublesome man at work. Such people exist everywhere, in everyone’s lives. All it takes is a word for it to start....

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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 322 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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    • 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: 宮部みゆき
    • Narrated by: 斉藤由貴
    • Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-15
    • Language: Japanese
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 「あたしを?このあたしの器量が気に入ったから嫁にほしいっていうんですか?」 不器量で大女、貧しい棒手振りの娘・お信に舞い込んだのは、美男で有名な木屋の繁太郎との縁談だった!困惑しつつも嫁入りした彼女は、木屋の人々の不可解な言動を目の当たりにし、何かがおかしいと感じ始めるのだが……!?数々の時代劇小説を発表し続ける宮部みゆきの傑作短編集「幻色江戸ごよみ」(新潮社)から、読者に圧倒的な支持を受ける「器

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    • By: 宮部みゆき
    • Narrated by: 平田満
    • Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: Japanese
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 悲しい事件を機に故郷を離れ、叔父の営む袋物店・三島屋に預けられたおちか。彼女は「変わり百物語」として、人々から江戸市中の不思議な話を聞き集めていた。ある日、ひどくやつれたひとりの男が三島屋を訪ね、おちかに話を聞いてほしいと懇願する。番頭の八十吉は、男の尋常でない様子に不安を覚えるが、おちかは必死の訴えに心を動かされ、彼の話を聞くことを決めた。元差配だという男

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    • Stories and Studies of Strange Things
    • By: Lafcadio Hearn
    • Narrated by: Blaise Adams
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was an Irish writer known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo. His book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, comprises two parts, the first being the "Kwaidan Proper" and the second, "Insect-Studies"....

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    • By: 宮部 みゆき
    • Narrated by: 田中 哲司
    • Length: 21 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-19
    • Language: Japanese
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 東京都荒川区の超高層マンションで起きた凄惨な殺人事件。

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    • By: 宮部 みゆき
    • Narrated by: 加藤 将之
    • Series: 模倣犯, Book 1
    • Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-19
    • Language: Japanese
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 墨田区・大川公園で若い女性の右腕とハンドバッグが発見された。

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