Japanese Ghost Stories: Spirits, Hauntings, and Paranormal Phenomena (Tuttle Classics)

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It delivers terrific entertainment-and some good chills-for the Japanophile and the aficionado of the supernatural alike. Product details Format Paperback pages Dimensions People who bought this also bought.

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P At several points, the author mentions various stories but fails to go into any detail, including one paragraph where the author mentions a couple of different stories, one of which is a ghost legend, and one involving a demon, both sounding quite interesting Instead the author gives long paragraph to the subject of haunted tools.

The writing improves, but it doesn't really get good until the last two stories which are much longer, and frankly kind of sound like someone else wrote them.

Maybe they're translation from another book? Personally though, if I read it in the future I'll read the mythology chapter then skip to the last two.

Japanese ghost stories : spirits, hauntings and paranormal phenomena

I wouldn't bother with the rest. Mar 18, Janet rated it it was ok Shelves: The title of this book is rather misleading. The majority of the book looks at spiritual thought and practice in Japan. While this may be of interest to some readers, it's not very in depth. There are a few tales at the end but not as many as I had hoped.

I would suggest searching for another book if you want to read some scary ghost stories. Not great but definitely not very interesting either. May 02, Yousra rated it it was ok. The book's title is very misleading. The ghost stories we were promised were in the last two chapters Sep 30, Nonaunicorn rated it liked it. Mar 15, Trevor Kew rated it did not like it Shelves: This is a very odd little book.

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The title is quite misleading, as the book does not retell ghost stories in a compelling or even a narrative way. Rather, it is a sort of slapdash "account of the supernatural" in Japan, but without any sense of scholarly criticism or skepticism either in fact, the author seems perhaps to believe in what she describes. Some of the stories and places mentioned are compelling on their own, but are not treated in an approachable manner, either creatively or critica This is a very odd little book. Some of the stories and places mentioned are compelling on their own, but are not treated in an approachable manner, either creatively or critically, in this book.

Japanese Ghost Stories: Spirits, Hauntings, and Paranormal Phenomena by Catrien Ross

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For the past twenty-five years Catrien Ross has made her home in Japan, where she lives in the mountains as an author, sudden artist and natural mystic. She is the founder of Energy Doorways, a creative and spiritual center at the foot of Mt. Fuji that helps people embrace their lives as multicultural, multifaceted, and multidimensional.

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Since Energy Doorways also serves as the exclusive publis For the past twenty-five years Catrien Ross has made her home in Japan, where she lives in the mountains as an author, sudden artist and natural mystic. Since Energy Doorways also serves as the exclusive publisher of Catrien Ross new books, ebooks, CDs, and other productions. In Catrien Ross experienced the phenomenon of sudden artistic output, a fantastical flow of spontaneous paintings and piano compositions.

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