His Penguin compilation includes 34 selections, a chronology of Hearn's peripatetic life, some intriguing background information about the sources of the stories, and a number of evocative woodblock prints. Paul Murray, a former Irish diplomat, has been hooked since a 1970s posting in Japan. the stories occupy the reverie world our mind projects onto the backs of our eyelids, where the ordinary mingles with the supernatural * The Wall Street Journal *Īn extraordinary author. What makes these stories, preserved from ancient times, especially readable today is the preternaturally postmodern form they are given in Hearn's deeply idiosyncratic telling * New Yorker * Over one hundred years ago, the writer Lafcadio Hearn gathered and translated into English a selection of traditional Japanese ghost/mystery stories. Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Ghost Stories Paperback 25 July 2019 by Lafcadio Hearn (Author), Paul Murray (Editor) 351 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 309.13 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 467.00 9 New from 436.

In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore, including the headless rokuro-kubi, the monstrous goblins jikininki or the. This book insightfully shows how Hearn filtered Japanese ghostly originals through the prism of his own expansive imagination and traumatized experience to create works that were distinctly, and chillingly, his own * Japan Times * A selection of Lafcadio Hearn's brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan. The reader of these stories enters a world at once. 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. One hundred and fifteen years after his death, Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese ghost stories have not lost their power to shock and enthral.

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