Lafcadio Hearn Short Stories – Tales of the Supernatural

Ghost lore, temple legend and the uneasy space between cultures give Lafcadio Hearn his subject matter. This Arcturus Publishing collection gathers short fiction by a writer who spent his later years in Japan and wrote it into English. Stories range from retold folk tales of spirits and vengeance to quieter pieces observing custom and belief. Hearn's prose is deliberate and atmospheric, closer to the nineteenth-century essay than to modern horror, and the collection format lets readers sample widely before settling in. What the pages hold: • Short fiction drawing on Japanese folklore and ghost tradition • A writer positioned between Eastern and Western literary habits • Atmospheric prose suited to reading one story at a time • An accessible entry point to Hearn's larger body of work Readers of classic supernatural fiction and of folklore will enjoy this Arcturus Publishing collection, stocked at Boipoka.