![]() ![]() Whatever its roots, he was drawn to the hidden realms of the spirit world with its strange facts and marvels. Some critics attribute Hearn's fascination with eerie tales to his partial blindness. All have been re-colored and reshaped by Hearn's inimitable hand. Many of the stories found in Kwaidan, "stories and studies of strange things," are based on Japanese tales told long ago to him by his wife others possibly have a Chinese origin. Known primarily as an early interpreter of Japanese culture and customs, the famous writer Lafcadio Hearn also wrote ghost stories-"delicate, transparent, ghostly sketches"-about his adopted land. ![]() This collection of Japanese supernatural stories is a classic work in the field of Japanese horror. ![]()
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