Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

This collection includes 26 legends with vivid atmospheric illustrations by the incomparable Draft.Anna, opening up a mystical world of restless spirits and mysterious beings from Japanese mythology.

Irish scholar and journalist Lafcadio Hearn, one day finding himself in Japan, no longer wanted to leave it.

For the rest of his life, the scholar devoted himself to collecting legends, adapting and translating Japanese folklore—making it his mission to introduce the West to traditional Eastern culture.