Oriental Ghost Stories
by Lafcadio Hearn
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' - and the man saw that she had no eyes or nose or mouth - and he screamed.'Lafcadio Hearn's fascinating and unsettling ghost stories are a reinterpretation of oriental legends, and folktales. They are a potent blend of weird beauty and horror.Hearn, who referred to his narratives as 'stories and studies of strange things', believed that the spectral world was part of the oriental landscape. Lakes, mountains, ruined castles and terraced fields were the natural locale of ghostly spirits, and show more their intervention in human affairs was part of the natural order of things. Hearn's apparitions are not a violent intrusion upon everyday reality; they are already a part of that reality, co-existing with the living.This collection contains the best of the work of this neglected master of the supernatural tale. Prepare to be charmed and chilled in equal measure. show lessTags
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Here are twenty-nine ghost stories from the Orient written by a true master of the genre. The tales in this volume are taken from three of his collections,'Some Chinese Ghosts','In Ghostly Japan',and 'Kwaidan'. They are based in many cases on oriental folk-tales and legends.
They vary from the gentle to the absolutely terrifying.
For anyone at all interested in the genre this volume is a must.
They vary from the gentle to the absolutely terrifying.
For anyone at all interested in the genre this volume is a must.
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Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a fiction writer, critic, amateur engraver, and journalist. He wrote extensively about the cultures of Louisiana and is considered the first major Western chronicler of Japanese culture Delia Labarre is an independent scholar of Lafcadio Hearn and Louisiana culture. She lives in Baton Rouge Jefferson Humphries is show more chair of French studies at Louisiana State University show less
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