**A collection of twenty-eight brilliant and strange stories, inspired by Japanese folk tales and written by renowned Western expatriate Lafcadio Hearn** Lafcadio Hearn (1850β1904) was one of the nineteenth centuryβs best-known writers, his name celebrated alongside those of Mark Twain and Robe
Lafcadio Hearn's ''The Faceless Ghost'' and Other Macabre Tales from Japan
β Scribed by Wilson, Sean Michael
- Publisher
- Shambhala Publications
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 20 MB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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