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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241675298Number of pages: 256Weight: 191 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm
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