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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]
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Ruști was born in Comoșteni, Dolj County.She was brought up in a village in the south of Romania by her parents and teachers, struggling to survive in a communist world. . Her blood accommodates ancestry ranging from Montenegrin to Jews and especially Danubian Romanians, all with long names ending in -escu, most of them teachers, store keepers, and horse deale
Tarō Hirai (平井 太郎, Hirai Tarō, October 21, 1894 – July 28, 1965), better known by the pen name Edogawa Ranpo (江戸川 乱歩), [a] was a Japanese author and critic who played a major role in the development of Japanese mystery and thriller fiction.
Patrick Lafcadio Hearn was born on the Greek Ionian Island of Lefkada on 27 June 1850. [2] His mother was a Greek named Rosa Cassimati and she was a native of the Greek island of Kythira, [3] while his father, Charles Bush Hearn, a British Army medical officer, was of Irish and English descent, [3] [4] who was stationed in Lefkada during the British protectorate of the United States of the ...
The first English translation was published by Wilfred Whitehouse in Monumenta Nipponica in 1938 [21] and 1941 [22] under the title Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of a Clouded Moon. [7] [8] Subsequent English translations have been published by Dale Saunders (1966), [23] Kenji Hamada (1972), [24] Leon Zolbrod (1974) and Anthony H. Chambers (2006). [25]
Botan Dōrō (牡丹燈籠, The Peony Lantern) is a Japanese ghost story and one of the most famous kaidan in Japan. The plot involves sex with the dead and the consequences of loving a ghost. It is sometimes known as Kaidan Botan Dōrō ( 怪談牡丹灯籠 , Tales of the Peony Lantern ) , based on the kabuki version of the story; this title ...
Giuseppe Balsamo (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈbalsamo]; 2 June 1743 – 26 August 1795), known by the alias Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (US: / k ɑː l ˈ j ɔː s t r oʊ, k æ l-/ ka(h)l-YAW-stroh, [1] [2] Italian: [alesˈsandro kaʎˈʎɔstro]), was an Italian occultist. Cagliostro was an Italian adventurer and self-styled magician.