Kwaidan and Kotto

Japanese ghost stories retold in English by a man who had married into the country and taken its citizenship: the woman of the snow, the blind priest whose body is written over with scripture, and a second volume of curios - insects, dreams, and the noises a house makes. Hearn heard most of these from his wife and set them down without softening the endings. Both books are here. Fifty-nine plates of moonlit gardens, evening waters and night cemeteries by painters including Edvard Munch and Josef Ullmann carry the same hush as these tales.