The Snow Ghost
Classic Japanese Ghost Stories
$23.47
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
7 January 2025
Summary
A spine-tingling collection of some of Japan’s scariest yet still compelling classic ghost stories.
Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From goblin-infested caves and haunted tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Japan was a country and culture that lived between realms: the world of everyday and the world of the supernatural.
It was a time and place whe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784878733 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784878731 |
| Author: | Richard Gordon Smith, Lafcadio Hearn, Yei Theodora Ozaki, Yuko Shimizu |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 7 January 2025 |
| Weight: | 152g |
| Dimensions: | 15mm x 129mm x 198mm |
Richard Gordon Smith
The improbable life story of Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) included a peculiarly gothic childhood in Ireland during which he was successively abandoned by his mother, his father and his guardian; two decades in the United States, where he worked as a journalist and was sacked for marrying a former slave; and a long period in Japan, where he married a Japanese woman and wrote about Japanese society and aesthetics for a Western readership. His ghost stories, which were drawn from Japanese folklore and influenced by Buddhist beliefs, appeared in collections throughout the 1890s and 1900s. He is a much celebrated figure in Japan.
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