Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
By Lafcadio Hearn
Length3h 47m
About this audiobook
A blind musician with amazing talent is called upon to perform for the dead. Faceless creatures haunt an unwary traveler. A beautiful woman — the personification of winter at its cruelest — ruthlessly kills unsuspecting mortals. These and 17 other chilling supernatural tales — based on legends, myths, and beliefs of ancient Japan — represent the very best of Lafcadio Hearn's literary style. They are also a culmination of his lifelong interest in the endlessly fascinating customs and tales of the country where he spent the last fourteen years of his life, translating into English the atmospheric stories he so avidly collected Teeming with undead samurais, man-eating goblins, and other terrifying demons, these 20 classic ghost stories inspired the Oscar®-nominated 1964 film of the same name. (Goodreads)
Audiobook details
GenreHorror, Literary Classics
Length3 hrs 47 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 30, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1INTRODUCTION
12YUKI-ONNA
2THE STORY OF MIMI-NASHI-HOICHI
13THE STORY OF AOYAGI
3OSHIDORI
14JIU-ROKU-ZAKURA
4THE STORY OF O-TEI
15THE DREAM OF AKINOSUKE
5UBAZAKURA
16RIKI-BAKA
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6DIPLOMACY
17HI-MAWARI
7OF A MIRROR AND A BELL
18HORAI
8JIKININKI
19BUTTERFLIES
9MUJINA
20MOSQUITOES
10ROKURO-KUBI
21ANTS
11A DEAD SECRET
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