He is a former Irish diplomat whose posting to Japan in the late 1970s first ignited his interest in Hearn. Japanese Ghost Stories: The ghostly ascent of Lafcadio Hearns tales of the supernatural by Damian Flanagan Japanologist Lafcadio Hearn has languished in relative obscurity outside of. We were both speaking at a conference at Durham’s Lafcadio Hearn. Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (1850 1904), known also by the Japanese name. Japanese Ghost Stories, by Lafcadio Hearn, Edited with an introduction by Paul Murray. They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right. Paul Murray is the author of biographies of Lafcadio Hearn and Bram Stoker, and the editor of collections of Hearn's work. Buy a copy of Lafcadio Hearn, Complete Japanese Ghost Stories book by Lafcadio Hearn. 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. Far away from home, in Japan, Hearn became the adopted father of the kaidan (ghost story), and the first foreigner to retell these folktales for a Western audience.
His ghost stories, which were drawn from Japanese folklore and influenced by Buddhist beliefs, appeared in collections throughout the 1890s and 1900s. Here, they are retold by award-winning comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson, who has garnered a worldwide fan base for his manga. Biography: The improbable life story of Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) included a peculiarly gothic childhood in Ireland during which he was successively abandoned by his mother, his father and his guardian two decades in the United States, where he worked as a journalist and was sacked for marrying a former slave and a long period in Japan, where he married a Japanese woman and wrote about Japanese society and aesthetics for a Western readership. This thrilling collection of seven Japanese ghost stories will captivate lovers of yokai stories These classic Japanese ghost stories are based on those written by famed author Lafcadio Hearn between 18.
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