![]() ![]() ![]() They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right. Paul Murray states that Kwaidan translates as Old Japanese ghost stories (p.XX). 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. Greek-born American writer Lafcadio Hearn spent 15 years in Japan. But the story is older than each of these. 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. One of Japan’s most famous ghost stories, famed in the film Kwaidan and in the books of 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. ![]() Introduction by Paul Murray.īrilliantly 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 ![]()
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