{"product_id":"japanese-ghost-stories","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 Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51167307530528,"sku":"9780241381274","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780241381274.jpg?v=1769729327","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/japanese-ghost-stories","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}