Hearn’s 1900 collection opens with strange old stories retold from Japanese sources: a samurai who returns to the wife he abandoned, a screen-painted maiden, a man who must ride a corpse through the night. Studies follow of the cicada in Japanese verse, of girls’ names and of old folk songs, and the book closes with Hearn’s own nocturnal fantasies.
Ghost stories, folklore and personal reverie from the Western writer who knew Meiji Japan best. Download the free EPUB.