{"product_id":"japanese-ghost-stories-by-lafcadio-hearn","title":"Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBrilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan, by the Irish writer and Japanophile Lafcadio Hearn—whose life inspired bestselling writer Monique Truong's novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Sweetest Fruits\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 neighborhoods. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create the chilling tales in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJapanese Ghost Stories\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e“The pleasures of [Hearn’s] work are to be found in his delightfully bizarre hybrid renditions of Japanese folklore—particularly of a genre called \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ekaidan\u003c\/span\u003e, or tales of the uncanny—old stories that he blended with elements of horror and French Romanticism, the best of which are collected in \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eJapanese Ghost Stories. \u003c\/span\u003e. . . The result is something that sits at the nexus of Borges, Baudelaire, and Bram Stoker, and that prompted Malcolm Cowley to call Hearn ‘the writer in our language who can best be compared with Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm.’ . . . His retellings of these strange tales are a delight to read.” —\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Attractive . . . The framing commentary . . . adds to the charm of the whole. . . . How curious, and how touching, that it fell to a peripatetic Westerner to vouchsafe these enchanting homegrown stories the immortality they deserve.” \u003cem\u003e—\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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. . . . . 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.” —\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eColin Dickey, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLongreads\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRODUCT DETAILS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Classics\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 978-0241381274\u003cbr\u003ePages: 272\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Page \u0026 Turner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45212706865360,"sku":null,"price":835.0,"currency_code":"PHP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8000\/5328\/files\/9780241381274.jpg?v=1791778744","url":"https:\/\/pageandturner.ph\/products\/japanese-ghost-stories-by-lafcadio-hearn","provider":"Page \u0026 Turner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}