The complete online text of In Ghostly Japan by Lafcadio Hearn.

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904), European-born American author, wrote novels and articles with exotic themes in highly precise and polished prose. Lafcadio Hearn was born June 27, 1850, on the Greek island of Santa Maura. His mother was Maltese and his father...

At the turn of the century Lafcadio Hearn was considered one of the finest prose stylists in the United States. His enormous output ranges from early articles written for Cincinnati newspapers to a series of volumes on Japan, the country where he spent t...

Patricio Lafcadio Tessima Carlos Hearn led an exotic and restless life from his birth on an island off the coast of Greece until his death in Japan fifty-four years later. He lived in loneliness in Ireland, England, and France as a child. He spent two ye...

You hear that a good cleaning person is hard to find, but this is ridiculous. One Saturday night, Eddie Burke, who runs Doyle's in Jamaica Plain, drops his most important person, Julie Getchell, off at the big Myrtle Street house that has been...

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