{"product_id":"japanese-ghost-stories-1","title":"Japanese Ghost Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eBrilliantly entertaining and eerie ghost stories, regarded as major classics in Japan, by the Irish writer and Japanophile Lafcadio Hearn--whose life inspired bestselling writer Monique Truong's novel \u003ci\u003eThe Sweetest Fruits\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living, and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: \"rokuro-kubi,\" whose heads separate from their bodies at night; \"jikininki,\" or flesh-eating goblins; and terrifying faceless \"mujina\" who haunt lonely neighborhoods. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create the chilling tales in \u003ci\u003eJapanese Ghost Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51948083544295,"sku":"9780241381274","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_2fffe2a9-7257-49b3-b7b9-9e024e274d9b.jpg?v=1775507667","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/japanese-ghost-stories-1","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}