Lantern: Japanese Ghost Stories by Tanaka Kotaro (.ePUB)
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Lantern: Japanese Ghost Stories by Tanaka Kōtarō (Kotaro) & Rhiona Dey (translator)
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Overview: Tanaka Kōtarō is predominately known in Japan for the wide range of horror and ghost stories he penned during his lifetime. Yet what is most remarkable about these works is not what Tanaka writes about, but how he manages to write about them in ways that are at the same time traditional and modern, Japanese yet somehow clearly influenced by the West. Take “Toad’s Blood” for example—a traditional Japanese folk tale: mysterious women with connections to the supernatural, an old-fashioned Japanese yashiki (mansion) that houses a dark secret, and a man led astray by a cunning spirit.
The four translations in this collection are just a taste of some of the most well-crafted ghost stories Tanaka penned during his lifetime. Includes introduction to the life of the author.
Genre: Fiction > Horror
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