Japanese Ghost Stories
Lafcadio Hearn author Paul Murray editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:2nd Nov '23
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£9.99(9780241381274)
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.
ISBN: 9780241675298
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 15mm
Weight: 193g
256 pages