Japanese Ghost Stories

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• Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN:
  9781804175965
• Edition: 0

Many of the ghost stories of Japan came to the fore during the Edo period with its famous woodblocks of ukiyo-e, the floating world. With a new introduction, this collection of Japanese ghost stories brings together fantastic tales of vengeful spirits, mountain-dwelling phantoms, man-eating oni, haunted trees, and child-rearing ghosts, with stories such as Yuki-Onna, Hoichi the Earless, The Ghost of O-Kiku from The Bancho Sarayashiki, the sorry tale of O-Iwa from the Yotsuya Kaidan, The Peony Lantern and The Ghost Who Bought Candy. Japan has a long and ancient custom of sharing stories of the supernatural, brought to fashionable prominence in the Kaidan literature of the Edo period, now presented here for the modern reader. FLAME TREE 451: From myth to mystery, the supernatural to horror, fantasy and science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• Furisodé
• A Passional Karma (The Peony Lantern)
• Ingwa-banashi
• Jiu-roku-zakura
• Yuki-Onna
• Hoichi the Earless (Mimi-nashi Hōichi no Hanashi)
• In a Cup of Tea
• The Ghost of O-Kiku from Banchō Sarayashiki, or The Lady of the Plates
• The Reconciliation
• The Corpse-Rider
• A Dead Secret
• Mujina
• The Strange Story of the Golden Comb
• The Spirit of the Lantern
• The Badger-Haunted Temple
• Yotsuya Kwaidan: Chapter XIV: The Punishment
• Ghost Story of the Flute’s Tomb
• The Spirit of Yenoki
• A Haunted Temple in Inaba Province
• The Secret of Iidamachi Pond
• The Snow Tomb
• The Kakemono Ghost of Aki Province
• The Spirit of the Willow Tree
• How the Lute Genjō was Snatched by an Oni
• How a Woman Who Was Bearing a Child Went to South Yamashina, Encountered an Oni, and Escaped
• How the Hunter’s Mother Became an Oni and Tried to Devour Her Children
• Shiramine
• The Blue Hood
• The Cottage in the Wilderness
• The Kibitsu Cauldron
• The Ghost Who Bought Candy
• Biographies & Sources
• A Taste for the Fantastic
• About this book
• FLAME TREE PUBLISHING