Yurei The Japanese Ghost – Zack Davisson
“I lived in a haunted apartment.” Davisson opens this definitive work on Japan’s ghosts, or yurei, with a personal tale about the spirit world. Shifting…
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Japanese Ghost Stories – Lafcadio Hearn
In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living,…
The Book of Yokai Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore – Michael Dylan Foster
A lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its ever-expanding influence on global popular culture through the concept of yokai. Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural…
Japanese Ghost Stories Spirits, Hauntings, Paranormal Phenomena – Ross Catrien
Japanese Ghost Stories is a collection of the eerie and terrifying from around Japan. This book opens a window into the hidden aspects of the…
Japanese Mythology – Judith Levin
Discusses the importance of folklore and mythology in Japanese culture and introduces famous Japanese legends and the gods and goddesses featured in them. Read Online…
Ghosts And The Japanese Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends – Michiko Iwasaka, Barre Toelken
The Japanese have ambivalent attitudes toward death, deeply rooted in pre-Buddhist traditions. In this scholarly but accessible work, authors Iwasaka and Toelken show that everyday…
Pandemonium and parade : Japanese monsters and the culture of Yōkai – Foster, Michael Dylan
Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yôkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and…
Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales of Old Japan – Lafcadio Hearn
This collection of Japanese supernatural stories is a classic work in the field of Japanese horror. Known primarily as an early interpreter of Japanese culture…