{"product_id":"9780143137870","title":"Japanese Supernatural Tales","description":"\u003cb\u003eA haunting gathering of classic Japanese tales of monsters and demons, \u003ci\u003eyōkai \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eoni \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eyūrei\u003c\/i\u003e, that live on in popular manga, anime, J-horror films, and video games\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Penguin Classic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlesh-eating \u003ci\u003eoni \u003c\/i\u003edemons, \u003ci\u003ekappa\u003c\/i\u003e water sprites, shapeshifting \u003ci\u003ekitsune\u003c\/i\u003e foxes, vengeful \u003ci\u003eyūrei\u003c\/i\u003e ghosts, and other monsters and magical creatures have long lurked in the shadows of Japanese culture, appearing as divine beings in eighth-century myths, dangerous demons in medieval literature, troublesome tricksters in local legends, and sinister predators in modern fiction. With dozens of stories, including twenty-four that have never been published in English, this volume showcases an incomparable range of the supernatural—from the beautiful ghost that seduces a widowed samurai, to the \u003ci\u003ejor\u003ci\u003eō\u003c\/i\u003egumo\u003c\/i\u003e spiders that transform into women to ensnare their human prey, to the sentient reflection that unnerves a night watchman in Haruki Murakami’s “The Mirror”—inviting you into a realm of frightening otherness from a rich, thousand-year tradition.","brand":"Michael Dylan Foster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":49181174989022,"sku":"9780143137870","price":27.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0425\/4567\/6440\/files\/BNCImageAPI_42ddbfb7-59a1-4e1a-9e42-2d8b21eefc92.jpg?v=1791592859","url":"https:\/\/paragraphbooks.com\/products\/9780143137870","provider":"Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}