Some Chinese Ghosts

Lafcadio Hearn

Wildside Press, Dec 1, 1999 - Fiction - 204 pages

"Hearn's ghostly fiction occupies a place unique in the history of ghost stories in the English language. Most of his ghost stories are actually retellings of Japanese (and some Chinese) legends and folktales. Utterly devoid of Gothic trappings, their tone and subject matter set them apart from their Occidental counterparts. The Penguin encyclopedia of horror and the supernatural."--Cover page 4.

About the author

Born in Greece to an Irish soldier and a Greek mother, Lafcadio Hearn emigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen. While working as a newspaperman in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hearn married a black woman, which was then illegal, and fled to New Orleans to escape prosecution. Once there, he began to work for the New Orleans Item. During his time in New Orleans, Hearn published several books while continuing his work as a journalist.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Some Chinese Ghosts
• Author: Lafcadio Hearn
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Wildside Press, 1999
• ISBN: 158715000X, 9781587150005
• Length: 204 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Horror; Fiction / Occult & Supernatural