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Podcast: Kaidankai: Ghost, Supernatural, and Dark Short Fiction
Episode: Day 80: Hoichi the Earless by Hengtee Lim, read by Andi Brooks
Description: The re-telling of a famous Japanese folktale about a blind minstrel who can charm even the dead.Hengtee Lim writes stories that look to capture the snippets ofĀ loneliness and connection that weave through the city of Tokyo. You can find more of his work at snippetsbooks.comĀ or drop him a line atĀ @hent03 on Twitter.Anglo-Irish writer Andi Brooks is co-author of the critically acclaimed biography Vampire Over London: Bela Lugosi in Britain and Ghostly Tales of Japan. Since moving to Japan, he has become immersed in the world of yÅ«reiĀ and yÅkai. <...