![]() ![]() They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right. ![]() Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create the chilling tales in Japanese Ghost Stories. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: "rokuro-kubi," whose heads separate from their bodies at night "jikininki," or flesh-eating goblins and terrifying faceless "mujina" who haunt lonely neighborhoods. ghost stories are based on those written by famed author Lafcadio Hearn. 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. This thrilling collection of seven Japanese ghost stories will captivate lovers. especially his collections of legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (from which this story is taken from. Brilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan, by the Irish writer and Japanophile Lafcadio Hearn-whose life inspired bestselling writer Monique Truong's novel The Sweetest Fruits Koizumi Yakumo (, 27 June 1850 26 September 1904), born Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was a Greek-Japanese writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and. ![]()
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