Table of Contents

Yuki Onna
The Story of O-Kamé
Of a Promise Kept
Of a Promise Broken
The Legend of Yurei-Daki
Ingwa-Banashi
The Corpse-Rider
A Legend of Fugen Bosatsu
The Story of Chugoro
Jikininki
The Story of Aoyagi
The Story of Ming-Y
The Story of O-Tei
Rokuro-Kubi
A Dead Secret
The Dream of Akinosuke
The Mirror Maiden
The Reconciliation
A Passional Karma
The Story of Ito Norisuké
Oshidori
The Sympathy of Benten
The Goblin-Spider
Mujina
The Gratitude of the Samébito
Fragment
Noctilucae
Riki-Baka
Nightmare-Touch

About the Author

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was named after the place he was born, Lefkada, in the Ionian Islands in Greece. As a child he moved from Greece first to Ireland and then to the United States where he worked as a journalist for local newspapers. He became increasingly disenchanted with western society and moved to Japan, where he married a local woman and railed against the loss of Japanese culture after the Meiji Restoration. He spent his life attempting to document the culture he loved in both fiction and carefully researched non-fiction studies.