Japanese Ghost Stories
ISBN: 9780241675298
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Published: 2023
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Number of pages: 256
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 196×128
Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Published: 2023
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Number of pages: 256
Language: English
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 196×128
Description
The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore - including the headless 'rokuro-kubi', the monstrous goblins 'jikininki' or the faceless 'mujina' who stalk lonely neighbourhoods - and infused them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking and eerie power. Today they are regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.
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