The Man-Eating Tree of Dark Hill

12 hrs. 49 min.

Language Russian

Author Soji Shimada

Narrator Igor Sergeev

A continuation of the cult intellectual mystery “Tokyo Zodiac.” A unique puzzle about a tree—a serial killer.

It’s hard to imagine anything more horrifying and frightening than what happened in the autumn of 1984. This terrible incident at Dark Hill in Yokohama shook all of Japan…

Near Yokohama, on Dark Hill, Kuraami stands an ancient tree—camphor laurel. Long ago, there was a prison there, where criminals were often executed. The locals say that this land became so saturated with blood that the ancient laurel was fed by death itself—and turned into… a cannibal. They can tell a dreadful story about how, forty years ago, in its crown they found a horribly mutilated body of a little girl. And from inside the tree, sometimes, there can be heard screams and crying… In the people’s words, this place is called cursed.

… When detective and foreteller Kiyoshi Mitarai read in the newspaper that a man’s body had been found near the laurel, having died under extremely strange circumstances, he immediately took up the investigation. For such a strange case had never happened in his practice. His friend—writer and artist Kazumi Isioka—strongly doubts success. How can you solve a crime in which supernatural forces are involved? Still, Mitarai believes in himself—and in his method…

1. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (narrated by Maxim Suslov) 2. The House of Crooked Walls (narrated by Konstantin Korolkov) 3. The Clone from the Lunar Dam (narrated by Maxim Suslov) 4. The Man-Eating Tree of Dark Hill 5. The Crystal Pyramid (narrated by Maxim Suslov) 6. The Head on the Silver Platter (narrated by Miroslav Velesov) 6. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders (narrated by Alexander Aravushkin) 7. The Hand of the Lady. Book 1 (narrated by Anton Afanasyev) 7. The Hand of Her Brush. Book 2 (narrated by Anton Afanasyev)