Japanese Ghost Stories Lafcadio Hearn Penguin Classics

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. Σελίδες: 256, Έτος Έκδοσης: 0930, Διαστάσεις: 12.9x12.9cm