A hybrid beast that devours dreams; a flesh-eating spectre from the graveyards of hell; a shape shifting phantom with no face; a demonic decapitator of babies; a huge goblin-spider that drinks human blood: all these plus many more strange and sinister creatures feature in the kwaidan (ghost stories') collated and translated by the author Lafcadio Hearn (1860-1904) during his 14-year stay in Japan. This collection of 29 tales presents the very best of his work in a true expression of Japanese lore at its bizarre and phantastic extremes.'
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A hybrid beast that devours dreams; a flesh-eating spectre from the graveyards of hell; a shape shifting phantom with no face; a demonic decapitator of babies; a huge goblin-spider that drinks human blood: all these plus many more strange and sinister creatures feature in the kwaidan (ghost stories') collated and translated by the author Lafcadio Hearn (1860-1904) during his 14-year stay in Japan. This collection of 29 tales presents the very best of his work in a true expression of Japanese lore at its bizarre and phantastic extremes.'