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Japanese Supernatural Tales

By Various
Penguin Classics
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A haunting gathering of classic Japanese tales of monsters and demons, yokai and oni and yurei, that live on in popular manga, anime, J-horror films, and video games. A Penguin Classic Flesh-eating oni demons, kappa water sprites, shapeshifting kitsune foxes, vengeful yurei ghosts, and other monsters... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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A haunting gathering of classic Japanese tales of monsters and demons, yokai and oni and yurei, that live on in popular manga, anime, J-horror films, and video games.

A Penguin Classic

Flesh-eating oni demons, kappa water sprites, shapeshifting kitsune foxes, vengeful yurei ghosts, and other monsters and magical creatures have long lurked in the shadows of Japanese culture. These creatures appear as divine beings in eighth-century myths, dangerous demons in medieval literature, troublesome tricksters in local legends, and sinister predators in modern fiction.

With dozens of stories, including twenty-four that have never been published in English, this volume showcases an incomparable range of the supernaturalβ€”from the beautiful ghost that seduces a widowed samurai, to the jorogumo spiders that transform into women to ensnare their human prey, to the sentient reflection that unnerves a night watchman in Haruki Murakami's "The Mirror". The collection invites you into a realm of frightening otherness from a rich, thousand-year tradition.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143137870

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 March 2027

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Edited by Michael Dylan Foster

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 218g

Pages: 304

Collections

Biography & Memoir Classic Fiction Classic General Fiction Classic Horror & Ghost Stories Coming Soon in Fiction Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Literary Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Pre-order Books Pre-orders Pre-orders by Release Date Various

About the Author

Michael Dylan Foster (editor) is the author of The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore and Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai. A professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis, he has been the "Yokai Navigator" since 2022 for the NHK World documentary television series YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore.

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