Japanese Ghost Stories

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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.

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Lafcadio Hearn

prozator englez stabilit în Japonia · 1850–1904

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, cunoscut și sub numele Koizumi Yakumo, a fost un prozator englez stabilit în Japonia. A scris memorii, povestiri și studii de pătrunzătoare observație asupra vieții poporului nipon.