Hearn retells legends, fables and parables gathered from translations of exotic literatures: the Egyptian Book of Thoth, the fountain maiden and the bird wife, tales from Indian and Buddhist sources such as the corpse-demon and Yamaraja, and more. Bound with them are his Fantastics, dreamy prose sketches of love and death in New Orleans.
Early work by the writer later famous for his books on Japan, already drawn to the strange and beautiful. Download the free EPUB.