![]() ![]() He is a former Irish diplomat whose posting to Japan in the late 1970s first ignited his interest in Hearn. Paul Murray is the author of biographies of Lafcadio Hearn and Bram Stoker, and the editor of collections of Hearn's work. They are today regarded in Japan as classics in their own right. His ghost stories, which were drawn from Japanese folklore and influenced by Buddhist beliefs, appeared in collections throughout the 1890s and 1900s. Lafcadio Hearn, a master storyteller, drew on traditional Japanese folklore, infused with memories of his own haunted childhood in Ireland, to create these chilling tales. ![]() ![]() Biography: The improbable life story of Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) included a peculiarly gothic childhood in Ireland during which he was successively abandoned by his mother, his father and his guardian two decades in the United States, where he worked as a journalist and was sacked for marrying a former slave and a long period in Japan, where he married a Japanese woman and wrote about Japanese society and aesthetics for a Western readership. ![]()
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