Japanese Ghost Stories - Lafcadio Hearn

Category: Horror, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Horror Japan Literature

Written by Lafcadio Hearn
Read by Eleanor Matsuura
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
Release date: 09-26-19

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 flesh-eating goblins; and terrifying faceless ‘mujina’ who haunt lonely neighbourhoods. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create these chilling tales. They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.