Japanese ghost stories - Lafcadio Hearn

The
dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides
possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling
Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio
Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore -
including the headless 'rokuro-kubi', the monstrous goblins 'jikininki'
or the faceless 'mujina' who stalk lonely neighbourhoods - and infused
them with his own memories of his haunted childhood in
nineteenth-century Ireland to create these terrifying tales of striking
and eerie power. Today they are regarded in Japan as classics in their
own right.

Edited with an introduction by Paul Murray