Japanese Ghost Stories

Download or Read eBook Japanese Ghost Stories PDF written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Japanese Ghost Stories
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9780241381281
ISBN-13 : 0241381282
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Book Synopsis Japanese Ghost Stories by : Lafcadio Hearn

Book excerpt: 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. Edited with an introduction by Paul Murray


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