Lafcadio Hearn's "The Faceless Ghost" and Other Macabre Tales from Japan
A Graphic Novel
$39.35
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2015
Summary
Eerie traditional Japanese ghost stories retold in a graphic novel format.
Over one hundred years ago, the writer Lafcadio Hearn gathered and translated into English a selection of traditional Japanese ghost/mystery stories. They were published as Kwaidan—Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In this new graphic novel, acclaimed manga creator Sean Michael Wilson retells six of these stories. All of them are very well known in Japan, where ghosts and demons are often called y…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781611801972 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1611801974 |
| Author: | Sean Michael Wilson, Michiru Morikawa |
| Publisher: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Imprint: | Shambhala Publications Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2015 |
| Weight: | 244g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 10mm |
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About The Author
Sean Michael Wilson
SEAN MICHAEL WILSON is a comic book writer from Scotland, living in Japan. He has had many books published with a variety of US, UK, and Japanese publishers, such as The Book of Five Rings, and edited the critically acclaimed AX- alternative manga (Publishers Weekly’s “Best Books of 2010” in comics). In 2016, his book Lafcadio Hearn’s “The Faceless Ghost” and Other Macabre Tales from Japan was nominated for the prestigious Eisner Award. And in 2017, his book Secrets of the Ninja won an International Manga Award from the Japanese Government.
MICHIRU MORIKAWA is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist and winner of the 2005 International Manga and Anime Award. With Sean Michael Wilson, she has created four graphic novels- Buskers, Yakuza Moon, The Demon’s Sermon on the Martial Arts, and Musashi.
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