Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing ...

"Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with glossary, index...and beautiful layout to boot." ...

“Finally the treatment these true classics deserve: thoroughly re-edited and modernized texts, with notes, glossary, index…and a beautiful ...

"Kwaidan" means "weird tales." Lafcadio Hearn has taken kwaidan and written some amazing, hair-raising tales of long ago--delicate, transparent, ghostly ...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia ...

Lafcadio Hearn's "non-fiction" article was originally published by Harper's Magazine in 1889. Detailing skulduggery and supernatural phenomenon on the ...

Lafcadio Hearn was a writer particularly gifted at translating a foreign aesthetic for a Western audience. Hearn's writing is always lyrical and passionate ...

I think that my best apology for the insignificant size of this volume is the very character of the material composing it. In preparing the legends I sought ...

Upon his arrival in Japan in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn found himself enamored with the culture, people, and stories of the country, and would make Japan his ...