Tentomushi: Seven Sorrows (Tent Mushi)

Name: Tentomushi: Seven Sorrows (Tent Mushi)
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ISBN: 9781911879718

✍️ Robert Porter

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🏛 Porter Professional Publishing 📅 2026 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781911879718

📝 Description: Tentomushi: Seven Sorrows (Tent Mushi)

Shirakawa-go, 1783. When grief turns folklore into desperate belief, fourteen-year-old Chiyo must resist becoming the vessel for her village's sorrow. A dark tale of sacrifice, superstition and what we carry for one another.

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Set in 1783 within the isolated mountain village of Shirakawa-go, Robert Porter’s Tentomushi: Seven Sorrows delivers a quiet, atmospheric descent into historical folk horror. When overwhelming grief warps local superstition into desperate ritual, fourteen-year-old Chiyo finds herself pressured to become the living vessel for her community's collective sorrow. Porter crafts a deeply unsettling mood built on the crushing weight of sacrifice and the dark burdens families carry for one another, favoring a lingering, psychological dread over cheap shocks. This thoughtful and chilling novel will particularly suit readers who appreciate slow-burning historical horror rooted in cultural folklore, isolation, and moral tension.

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Set in 1783 within the isolated mountain village of Shirakawa-go, Robert Porter’s Tentomushi: Seven Sorrows delivers a quiet, atmospheric descent into historical folk horror. When overwhelming grief warps local superstition into desperate ritual, fourteen-year-old Chiyo finds herself pressured to become the living vessel for her community's collective sorrow. Porter crafts a deeply unsettling mood built on the crushing weight of sacrifice and the dark burdens families carry for one another, favoring a lingering, psychological dread over cheap shocks. This thoughtful and chilling novel will particularly suit readers who appreciate slow-burning historical horror rooted in cultural folklore, isolation, and moral tension.