Oriental Ghost Stories
- ISBN-10
- 1840226102
- ISBN-13
- 9781840226102
- Category
- Cult members
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Author
- Lafcadio Hearn
Description
Lafcadio Hearn's fascinating and unsettling ghost stories are a reinterpretation of oriental legends, and folktales. They are a potent blend of weird beauty and horror.
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