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Japanese Ghost Stories
- Author
- Lafcadio Hearn
- Narrator
- Eleanor Matsuura
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 26 September 2019
- Run Time
- 9 hours 5 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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This Penguin Classic is performed by Eleanor Matsuura, known for AMC's The Walking Dead and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Paul Murray.
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 and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: 'rokuro-kubi', whose heads separate from their bodies at night; 'jikininki', or flesh-eating goblins; and terrifying faceless 'mujina' who haunt lonely neighbourhoods. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create these chilling tales. They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.
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Details
- Author
- Lafcadio Hearn
- Narrator
- Eleanor Matsuura
- Duration
- 9 hours 5 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 September 2019
- ISBN
- 9780241426050
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Classic horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction, Fairy and Folk tales / Fairy tale retellings, Short stories
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Eleanor Matsuura, known for AMC's The Walking Dead and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Paul Murray.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 and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: 'rokuro-kubi', whose heads separate from their bodies at night; 'jikininki', or flesh-eating goblins; and terrifying faceless 'mujina' who haunt lonely neighbourhoods. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create these chilling tales. They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.
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