{"product_id":"lafcadio-hearns-the-faceless-ghost-and-other-macabre-tales-from-japan-isbn-9781611801972","title":"Lafcadio Hearn's \"The Faceless Ghost\" and Other Macabre Tales from Japan","description":"\u003cb\u003eEerie traditional Japanese ghost stories retold in a graphic novel format.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver one  hundred years ago, the writer Lafcadio Hearn gathered and translated  into English a selection of traditional Japanese ghost\/mystery stories.  They were published as \u003ci\u003eKwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. \u003c\/i\u003eIn  this new graphic novel, acclaimed manga creator Sean Michael Wilson  retells six of these stories. All of them are very well known in Japan,  where ghosts and demons are often called \u003ci\u003eyokai,\u003c\/i\u003e meaning \"the  mysterious and weird.\" Today these stories find expression mostly in  movies and manga, but they remain rooted in the traditional ghost  stories of the Edo era known as \u003ci\u003ekaidan,\u003c\/i\u003e which means \"recited narrative of strange, mysterious, rare, or bewitching apparitions.\" \u003cbr\u003e      \u003cbr\u003eThe book includes an afterword by William Scott Wilson, the esteemed  translator and editor of Japanese texts and samurai philosophy, who puts  the stories into historical context.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2016 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens Recommendation\u003c\/b\u003eSEAN MICHAEL WILSON is a comic book writer from Scotland, living in Japan. He has had many books published with a variety of US, UK, and Japanese publishers, such as \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Five Rings\u003c\/i\u003e, and edited the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eAX: alternative manga \u003c\/i\u003e(\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e’s “Best Books of 2010” in comics). In 2016, his book\u003ci\u003e Lafcadio Hearn’s “The Faceless Ghost” and Other Macabre Tales from Japan\u003c\/i\u003e was nominated for the prestigious Eisner Award. And in 2017, his book \u003ci\u003eSecrets of the Ninja \u003c\/i\u003ewon an International Manga Award from the Japanese Government. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMICHIRU MORIKAWA is a Japanese illustrator and manga artist and winner  of the 2005 International Manga and Anime Award. With Sean Michael  Wilson, she has created four graphic novels: \u003ci\u003eBuskers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYakuza Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Demon's Sermon on the Martial Arts, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMusashi.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Shambhala","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305396883685,"sku":"NP9781611801972","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781611801972.jpg?v=1767731092","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/lafcadio-hearns-the-faceless-ghost-and-other-macabre-tales-from-japan-isbn-9781611801972","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}