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Podcast: Kaidankai: Ghost, Supernatural, and Dark Short Fiction
Episode: An Encounter in Aokigahara by David Holloway
Description: One man is obsessed by death and suicide, so it is not surprising that he would seek out Aokigahara, Japan's famous suicide forest. When he encounters an old woman in the forest, will he change his mind?First published in Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch by Stone Bridge Press.David Sands Holloway was a scholar of contemporary Japanese literature, culture, and gender studies whose meteoric career rise was cut short by his sudden death, June 25, 2021. A tenure-track assistant professor of Japanese in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of...