Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Publish date: 2 November 2023
Pages: 256
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Subjects: Fiction, Classics, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Ghost, Horror, Occult & Supernatural, Short Stories (single author), Thrillers, Supernatural, Social Science, Folklore & Mythology
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.
