num_pages: 144
description: Eerie traditional Japanese ghost stories retold in a graphic novel format.Nominated for the prestigious EISNER AWARD - the top award in the USA for comics/graphic novels. In the category of: '15. Best Adaptation from Another Medium'http://www.comic-con.org/awards/2016-...Over one hundred years ago the writer Lafcadio Hearn gathered and translated into English a selection of traditional Japanese ghost/mystery stories. They were published as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. In this new graphic novel acclaimed manga creator Sean Michael Wilson retells six of these stories. All of them are very well known in Japan where ghosts and demons are often called yokai meaning the mysterious and weird. Today these stories find expression mostly in movies and manga but they remain rooted in the traditional ghost stories of the Edo era known as kaidan which means recited narrative of strange mysterious rare or bewitching apparitions. The book includes an author's afterword by Sean Michael Wilson who puts the stories into a personal and historical context.
language: English
title: Lafcadio Hearn's "The Faceless Ghost" and Other Macabre Tales from Japan: A Graphic Novel
publisher: Shambhala