A review by shaffe71
Kwaidan: Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn

2.0

The stories in this were written with strange language. They also had a lot of grammatical errors, which is obnoxious to read. Everything was phrased weirdly. I, for one, expect ghost stories to be scary, but I don't think a single story in this book was, which might have to do with the way they're written. A lot of them also have very abrupt endings. Not all of them are even Japanese stories. There's one about two Welsh boys, which doesn't at all fit with the rest of the stories.

The insect studies at the end are terrible. The butterfly and ant ones at least had one very short story each, otherwise they're just a massive chore to get through. I skimmed almost the entire ant essay, and it seemed to be about the sex lives of ants. In a Japanese ghost story book. It didn't make sense and those should not have been included.

I liked looking at the art that was included, but it would've been nice for it to match up with the stories better.