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26%OFFLafcadio Hearn - Japanese Ghost Stories - 9780241381274 - 9780241381274
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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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241381274
SKU
9780241381274
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2

About Lafcadio Hearn
The improbable life story of Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) included a peculiarly gothic childhood in Ireland during which he was successively abandoned by his mother, his father and his guardian; two decades in the United States, where he worked as a journalist and was sacked for marrying a former slave; and a long period in Japan, where he married a Japanese ... Read more

Reviews for Japanese Ghost Stories
The particular value of Murray's collection is that it leads us in chronological order through a much greater breadth of Hearn's writings on the supernatural in Japan, with ghostly tales selected from 11 of his books ... This book insightfully shows how Hearn filtered Japanese ghostly originals through the prism of his own expansive imagination and traumatized experience to create ... Read more

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