The Snow Ghost and Other Tales
Classic Japanese Ghost Stories
$39.26
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
21 November 2023
Summary
A spine-tinglingly beautiful hardback collection of some of Japan’s scariest yet still compelling classic ghost stories
Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries.
From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Japan was a country and culture that lived with between realms- the world of everyday and the world of supernatural.
<…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784878726 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1784878723 |
| Author: | Richard Gordon Smith, Lafcadio Hearn, Yei Theodora Ozaki, Yuko Shimizu |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 21 November 2023 |
| Weight: | 331g |
| Dimensions: | 222mm x 144mm x 23mm |
About The Author
Richard Gordon Smith
Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was born in Ireland but spent two decades in the United States, where he worked as a journalist, before travelling and living 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.
Yei Theodora Ozaki (1870-1932) was an early 20th century translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. Her translations were fairly liberal but have been popular, and were reprinted several times after her death.
Richard Gordon Smith (1858-1918) was a British traveller, sportsman and naturalist who travelled through many countries in the late nineteenth century and lived in Japan for a number of years.
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