JAPANESE GHOST STORIES

Many of the ghost stories of Japan came to the fore during the Edo period with its famous woodblocks ofukiyo-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-eatingoni, haunted trees, and child-rearing ghosts, with stories such as Yuki-Onna, Hoichi the Earless, The Ghost of O-Kiku fromThe Bancho Sarayashiki, the sorry tale of O-Iwa from theYotsuya 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.

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