Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (怪談, Kaidan?, also Kwaidan (archaic)), often shortened to Kwaidan, is a book by Lafcadio Hearn that features several Japanese ghost stories and a brief non-fiction study on insects. It was later used as the basis for a movie called Kwaidan by Masaki Kobayashi in 1965.
Kaidan is Japanese for "ghost story".
Read more about Kwaidan: Stories And Studies Of Strange Things: Stories, Insect Studies
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