The Snow Ghost and Other Tales

The Snow Ghost and Other Tales

by Richard Gordon SmithLafcadio Hearn Yei Theodora Ozaki and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 17/08/2023

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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.


It was a time and place where men could be brought down by karmic forces or lured into deadly danger by ghostly apparitions, and where the land held sorrowful secrets or stories that long-awaited an opportunity to reveal them and seek reparation.


The Snow Ghost and Other Tales brings together some of the best and scariest tales that endured across centuries of folk lore in one new beautiful hardback collection. Finally commited to writing during the turn of the twenieth cenutry by a unique set of folklorists, the ghost stories presented in this new anthology will transport readers to a time of magic and mystery, and let them relish in the spine-tingling traditions of Japanese culture largely lost now to modernity.


For readers of Haruki Murakami, David Mitchell and Shirley Jackson

ISBN:
9781529912289
9781529912289
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
17-08-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Random House
Lafcadio Hearn

Lafcadio Hearn (1850–1904) was instrumental in introducing Western readers to Japanese culture and literature. Raised in Dublin and a longtime resident of the United States, the writer, translator, and teacher adopted Japanese citizenship and served as Professor of English Literature at the Imperial University of Tokyo.

Yuko Shimizu

Yuko Shimizu is a Japanese illustrator based in New York City and instructor at School of Visual Arts. Newsweek Japan has chosen Yuko as one of "100 Japanese People The World Respects" in 2009.

Her first self-titled monograph came out in 2011 (Gestalten), and her second was released from ROADS Publishing in spring of 2016. Other books include: A Wild Swan (collaboration with novelist Michael Cunningham, FSG, 2015) and a multi award winning children's book Barbed Wire Baseball (written by Marissa Moss, Abrams, 2013).

You may have seen her work on The Gap T-shirts, Pepsi cans, VISA billboards, Microsoft and Target ads, as well as on the book covers of Penguin, Scholastic, DC Comics, and on the pages of NY Times, Time, Rolling Stone, New Yorker and in many other publications over last ten years.

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