Lafcadio Hearn
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"I am millions of millions of years old, as a phenomenon. As absolute I am eternal and older than the universe," etc. Faithfully ever Lafcadio Hearn to Ellwood Hendrick Kobe, September, 1895[1] "Lafcadio Hearn, strange, wandering, and exotic, departs still farther from the realm of the real; and with the supreme artistry of a sensitive poet weaves phantasies impossible to an author of the solid roast beef type. His Fantastics, written in America, contains some of the most impressive ghoulishness in all literature; whilst his Kwaidan, written in Japan, crystallises with matchless skill and delicacy the eerie lore and whispered legends of that richly colourful nation." --"Supernatural Horror in Literature" (1927) by H. P. Lovecraft |
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Patrick Lafcadio Hearn (June 27, 1850 - September 26, 1904), also known as Koizumi Yakumo after gaining Japanese citizenship, was an author, best known for his books about Japan. He is especially well-known for his collections of Japanese legends and ghost stories, such as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things and as a translator of Théophile Gautier.
Books written by Hearn on Japanese subjects
- Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan (1894)
- Out of the East: Reveries and Studies in New Japan (1895)
- Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life (1896)
- Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East (1897)
- The boy who drew cats (1897; Houghton Mifflin, Boston)
- Exotics and Retrospectives (1898)
- Japanese Fairy Tales (1898) and sequels
- In Ghostly Japan (1899)
- Shadowings (1900)
- Japanese Lyrics (1900) - on haiku
- A Japanese Miscellany (1901)
- Kottō: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs (1902)
- Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1903) (which was later made into the movie Kwaidan by Masaki Kobayashi)
- Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation (1904; published just after his death)
- The Romance of the Milky Way and other studies and stories (1905; published posthumously)
See also
- Fantastics and other Fancies (1914) by Lafcadio Hearn
