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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Few do spooky, disturbing ghost stories as well as the Japanese. And few Westerners have truly got under the skin and understood Japan as Lafcadio Hearn. This is an excellent collection, perfect to dip into now and again to leisure in the ghostly goings-on. Great stuff, and a must-have on the bookshelf of any fan of Japanese literature. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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Brought to you by Penguin.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. 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 neighbourhoods. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create these chilling tales. They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.4Literature English (North America) American fiction Later 19th Century 1861-1900LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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