Kwaidan:_Stories_and_Studies_of_Strange_Things
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
1904 book by Lafcadio Hearn
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (怪談, Kaidan, also Kwaidan (archaic)), often shortened to Kwaidan ("ghost story"), is a 1904 book by Lafcadio Hearn that features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief non-fiction study on insects.[1] It was later used as the basis for a 1964 film, Kwaidan, by Masaki Kobayashi.[2]