Kwaidan 
Subtitle: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Publisher: Peter Smith Publisher, Incorporated
Published: July 1, 1983
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780844622286
Subjects: Fiction; Short Stories (single author)
First sentence: The publication of a new volume of Lafcadio Hearn's exquisite studies of Japan happens, by a delicate irony, to fall in the very month when the world is waiting with tense expectation for news of the latest exploits of Japanese battleships.