Kwaidan Illustrated

Download or read book Kwaidan (Illustrated) written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition of "e;stories and studies of strange things"e; accompanied by illustrations by Lester Banzuelo, Lafcadio Hearn draws from his life in Japan and sketches a delicate, haunting world of snow maidens and faceless ghosts, corpse-eaters and trickster demons, soul mountains and enchanted sleep. With poetic imagination and cultural insight distilled by a lucid literary style, Hearn ushers us into the mysteries and marvels of an island country born of the sun and shrouded in mist from the sea.

Download or read book Shadowings written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Download or read book Selected Ghost Stories from Kwaidan written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by WordFire +ORM. This book was released on 2022-06-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A haunting collection of Japanese folktales, translated and interpreted by the acclaimed Irish-Greek author and Japanophile. In 1904, Lafcadio Hearn introduced Western readers to the world of Japanese folklore with his collection of ghost stories, Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. His hauntingly lyrical and complex translations, in which he often put his own twist on the traditional tale, are now regarded as preeminent classics in Japan. This volume presents seventeen of Hearn’s unforgettable stories. A blind performer plays for an audience of ghosts. A maiden reincarnates to search for her beloved. A nurse offers the ultimate sacrifice for her young charge. And a group of rokurokubi plot to end the life of a noble samurai. Whether you’re in the mood for phantoms, demons, ghouls, or ghosts, these otherworldly tales will haunt you long after you’ve finished reading.

Download or read book Kwaidan written by Jung and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 12th Century Japan, amidst a savage conflict between two rival clans, Lady Orin pines for her warrior lover. Jealous of her beautiful sister, Lady Akane savagely mutilates Orin's face and begins a complicated web of revenge and redemption that spans two centuries. Jung's lush, expressive artwork and expert sense of timing brings to life this suspense-filled tale, packed with ghostly encounters, samurai swordplay, undead armies, beautiful landscapes, and strange demons.

Download or read book Japanese Ghost Stories written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Download or read book Manga Yokai Stories written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1890 and 1904. Here, they are retold by award-winning comic book writer Sean Michael Wilson, who has garnered a worldwide fan base for his manga adaptations of works of Japanese literature, including such classics as The Book of Five Rings and The Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts. Manga Yokai Stories includes: Nuke-kubi: A masterless samurai is trapped in a house haunted by headless goblins The Screen Maiden: A young man develops an obsession with a woman in a painting that almost kills him Corpse Rider: A woman's unburied corpse cannot rest until she has taken her revenge on the man who divorced her A Dead Secret: A young mother terrifies her family when she returns as a ghost, unable to find peace until she puts to rest a shocking secret she has left behind Wilson's skillful adaptation of Hearn's ghostly tales--along with superb manga illustrations from UK-based Japanese artist Inko Ai Takita--make these fascinating stories come to life. This book is in traditional Japanese reading order--from back to front--so that fans and manga lovers can enjoy an authentic reading experience.

Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Lafcadio Hearn (Illustrated) written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 5131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Victorian era, Lafcadio Hearn introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West. Celebrated for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, as well as writings about the city of New Orleans, Hearn produced a diverse and inimitable range of works. This comprehensive eBook presents Hearn's complete works in English, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Hearn's life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * All the published books, with individual contents tables * Features many rare story and essay collections available in only this eBook * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Famous works are fully illustrated with their original artwork * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the complete short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Hearn's rare Creole works– available in no other collection * Features Bisland's seminal biography - explore Hearn's life and letters * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with three rare works and corrected texts and footnotes CONTENTS: Books on Japanese Subjects Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894) Out of the East (1895) Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (1896) Gleanings in Buddha-Fields (1897) Exotics and Retrospectives (1898) Japanese Fairy Tales (1898) In Ghostly Japan (1899) Shadowings (1900) Japanese Lyrics (1900) A Japanese Miscellany (1901) Kottō: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs (1902) Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1903) Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (1904) The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies and Stories (1905) Books on Louisiana Subjects La Cuisine Creole: A Collection of Culinary Recipes (1885) Gombo Zhèbes: A Little Dictionary of Creole Proverbs (1885) Chita: A Memory of Last Island (1889) Creole Sketches (1922) Other Works One of Cleopatra’s Nights and Other Fantastic Romances by Théophile Gautier (1882) Stray Leaves from Strange Literature (1884) Some Chinese Ghosts (1887) Youma: The Story of a West-Indian Slave (1889) Two Years in the French West Indies (1890) Letters from ‘The Raven’ (1907) Leaves from the Diary of an Impressionist (1911) Fantastics and Other Fancies (1914) Pre-Raphaelite and Other Poets (1922) Books and Habits, from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn (1922) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Biography The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn (1906) by Elizabeth Bisland