Japanese Ghost Stories

by Hearn, Lafcadio | Fiction & related items
Published 02/11/2023 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Japanese Classics series
Paperback | 256 pages
198 x 123 x 8mm | 192g

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.