Japanese Ghost Stories
Author: Lafcadio Hearn
In 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 fl….Read More
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