Of Ghosts and Goblins
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short works by the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith
A Penguin Classic Hardcover
In this haunting collection, the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore stalk the page. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create these chilling tales. They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.
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October 10, 2023The 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.
Some Japanese Ghosts
Lafcadio Hearn
Of Ghosts and Goblins
Lafcadio Hearn; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Japanese Ghost Stories
Lafcadio Hearn; Edited with an Introduction by Paul Murray
The Temptation of Saint Anthony
Gustave Flaubert Translated by Lafcadio Hearn; Introduction by Michel Foucault
Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner
White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Chess
Stefan Zweig
Street Haunting
Virginia Woolf
About Love
Anton Chekhov
Summer
Edith Wharton
The Queen of Spades
Alexander Pushkin
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Bliss
Katherine Mansfield
The Star-Child
Oscar Wilde
The Awakening
Kate Chopin
The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry
The Cossacks
Leo Tolstoy
Passing
Nella Larsen