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Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn
A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was one of the nineteenth century’s best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson. Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, Hearn was a true prodigy and world traveler. He worked as a reporter in Cincinnati, New Orleans, and the West Indies before heading to Japan in 1890 on a commission from Harper’s. There, he married a Japanese woman from a samurai family, changed his name to Koizumi Yakumo, and became a Japanese subject. An avid collector of traditional Japanese tales, legends, and myths, Hearn taught literature and wrote his own tales for both Japanese and Western audiences. Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn brings together twenty-eight of Hearn’s strangest and most entertaining stories in one elegant volume.

Hearn’s tales span a variety of genres. Many are fantastical ghost stories, such as “The Corpse-Rider,” in which a man foils the attempts of his former wife’s ghost to haunt him. Some are love stories in which the beloved is not what she appears to be: in “The Story of Aoyagi,” a young samurai narrowly escapes the wrath of his lord for marrying without permission, only to discover that his wife is the spirit of a willow tree. Throughout this collection, Hearn’s reverence for Japan shines through, and his stories provide insights into the country’s artistic and cultural heritage.

With an introduction by Andrei Codrescu discussing Hearn’s life and work, as well as a foreword by Jack Zipes, Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn provides a unique window into one writer’s multicultural literary journey.
Kwaidan, Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Kwaidan, Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Lafcadio Hearn

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Kwaidan: Stories And Studies Of Strange Things

Kwaidan: Stories And Studies Of Strange Things

Lafcadio Hearn

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The Best Psychic Stories

The Best Psychic Stories

others, Hereward Carrington, Elsa Barker, Helena Blavatsky, various authors, Gambier Bolton, Lafcadio Hearn, George Wharton Edwards, Nizida, Ambrose Bierce, St. John D. Seymour, Jack London, William T. Stead, Algernon Blackwood, Katherine Rickford, Walter F. Prince, Edgar Allan Poe, Andrew Jackson Davis

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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Unabridged)

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (Unabridged)

Lafcadio Hearn

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Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan

Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan

Lafcadio Hearn

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Selected Ghost Stories from Kwaidan

Selected Ghost Stories from Kwaidan

Lafcadio Hearn

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Children of the Levee

Children of the Levee

Lafcadio Hearn

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Manga Yokai Stories

Manga Yokai Stories

Lafcadio Hearn

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Collected Ghost Stories

Collected Ghost Stories

Lafcadio Hearn

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Collected Ghost Stories

Collected Ghost Stories

Lafcadio Hearn

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Kwaidan

Kwaidan

Lafcadio Hearn

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The Complete Works of Lafcadio Hearn

The Complete Works of Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

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The Complete Works of Lafcadio Hearn

The Complete Works of Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn

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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Lafcadio Hearn

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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Lafcadio Hearn

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In Ghostly Japan

In Ghostly Japan

Lafcadio Hearn

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In Ghostly Japan

In Ghostly Japan

Lafcadio Hearn

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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Lafcadio Hearn

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Kwaidan

Kwaidan

Lafcadio Hearn

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Contes macabres du Japon

Contes macabres du Japon

Lafcadio Hearn, Sean Michael Wilson, Michiru Morikawa

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The Plague, Pestilence & Apocalypse MEGAPACK ®

The Plague, Pestilence & Apocalypse MEGAPACK ®

Robert Reed, Jack London, Edgar Wallace, Raymond F. Jones, Lafcadio Hearn

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The Third Ghost Story Megapack

The Third Ghost Story Megapack

Gertrude Atherton, F. Marion Crawford, Lafcadio Hearn, A. T. Quiller-Couch, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, W.W. Jacobs, W. C. Morrow, Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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The Second Ghost Story MEGAPACK®

The Second Ghost Story MEGAPACK®

M.R. James, Lafcadio Hearn

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Kokoro

Kokoro

Lafcadio Hearn

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Kokoro

Kokoro

Lafcadio Hearn

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Kotto

Kotto

Lafcadio Hearn

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Gleanings in Buddha Field

Gleanings in Buddha Field

Lafcadio Hearn

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Kwaidan

Kwaidan

Lafcadio Hearn

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Chinese Ghost Stories

Chinese Ghost Stories

Lafcadio Hearn

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Two Years in the French West Indies (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Two Years in the French West Indies (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Lafcadio Hearn

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Out of the East

Out of the East

Lafcadio Hearn

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In Ghostly Japan

In Ghostly Japan

Lafcadio Hearn

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In Ghostly Japan

In Ghostly Japan

Lafcadio Hearn

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Lafcadio Hearn's Japan

Lafcadio Hearn's Japan

Lafcadio Hearn

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In Ghostly Japan

In Ghostly Japan

Lafcadio Hearn

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In Ghostly Japan

In Ghostly Japan

Lafcadio Hearn

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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Lafcadio Hearn

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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Lafcadio Hearn

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Chita

Chita

Lafcadio Hearn

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Exotics and Retrospectives

Exotics and Retrospectives

Lafcadio Hearn

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Shadowings

Shadowings

Lafcadio Hearn

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Romance of the Milky Way

Romance of the Milky Way

Lafcadio Hearn

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