Japanese Ghost Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0241381274
- ISBN-13
- 9780241381274
- Series
- Japanese Ghost Stories
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Lafcadio Hearn
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', and the faceless 'mujina' who stalk the 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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