Lafcadio Hearn's "The Faceless Ghost" and Other Macabre Tales from Japan
Lafcadio Hearn's "The Faceless Ghost" and Other Macabre Tales from Japan Eerie traditional Japanese ghost stories retold in a graphic novel format.Over one hundred years ago, the writer Lafcadio…
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Lafcadio Hearn's "The Faceless Ghost" and Other Macabre Tales from Japan
Eerie traditional Japanese ghost stories retold in a graphic novel format.Over one hundred years ago, the writer Lafcadio Hearn gathered and translated into English a selection of traditional Japanese ghost/mystery stories. In this new graphic novel, acclaimed manga creator Sean Michael Wilson retells six of these stories. They were published as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things.
Today these stories find expression mostly in movies and manga, but they remain rooted in the traditional ghost stories of the Edo era known as kaidan, which means recited narrative of strange, mysterious, rare, or bewitching apparitions.The book includes an afterword by William Scott Wilson, the esteemed translator and editor of All of them are very well known in Japan, where ghosts and demons are often called yokai, meaning the mysterious and weird.