He is a former Irish diplomat whose posting to Japan in the late 1970s first ignited his interest in Hearn. Paul Murray is the author of biographies of Lafcadio Hearn and Bram Stoker, and the editor of collections of Hearn's work. His ghost stories, which were drawn from Japanese folklore and influenced by Buddhist beliefs, appeared in collections throughout the 1890s and 1900s. Hearn, who referred to his narratives as 'stories and studies of strange things', believed that the spectral world was part of the oriental landscape. They are a potent blend of weird beauty and horror. Biography: The improbable life story of Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) included a peculiarly gothic childhood in Ireland during which he was successively abandoned by his mother, his father and his guardian two decades in the United States, where he worked as a journalist and was sacked for marrying a former slave and a long period in Japan, where he married a Japanese woman and wrote about Japanese society and aesthetics for a Western readership. These classic Japanese ghost stories are based on those written by famed author Lafcadio Hearn between 18. Lafcadio Hearn's fascinating and unsettling ghost stories are a reinterpretation of oriental legends, and folktales.
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