![]() ![]() dream eyes face fell fire follow fortune-teller frightened front garden girl give hand happened hard head heard Heiké hill Hïchi hole Japanese Ghost Stories kill king Kwairy. Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850 1904), known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo, was an international writer, known best for his books about Japan, especially his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. It is a testament to the power of Hearn's writings that this foreign-born writer has earned a place in the canon of Japanese literature-his work is still celebrated in Japan to this day." - Colin Dickey, Longreads, The particular value of Murray's collection is that it leads us in chronological order through a much greater breadth of Hearn's writings on the supernatural in Japan, with ghostly tales selected from 11 of his books. Japanese Ghost Stories Lafcadio Hearn Limited preview - 2019. It is a testament to the power of Hearn's writings that this foreign-born writer has earned a place in the canon of Japanese literature-his work is still celebrated in Japan to this day." - Colin Dickey, Longreads, "The stories in this new Penguin anthology are why Hearn continues to have a lasting legacy in both America and in his adopted homeland, Japan. How curious, and how touching, that it fell to a peripatetic Westerner to vouchsafe these enchanting homegrown stories the immortality they deserve." - The Wall Street Journal "The stories in this new Penguin anthology are why Hearn continues to have a lasting legacy in both America and in his adopted homeland, Japan. ![]()
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