Anthology series: Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from Japan

Editor:  Higashi Masao

Language:  English

Series:  2009 – 2012

Bibliographic comments:

Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from Japan, Volume 1: Tales of Old Edo

Higashi Masao, ed.

2009

<  November 2009, 1st edition

Kurodahan Press

ISBN 978-4-902075-08-3

Trade paperback, xiv+274 pages

$16.00

Notes:

  •  Preface by Robert Weinberg, 'Introduction: "The Origins of Japanese Weird Fiction"' by Higashi Masao.

  •  Interior art by Dorothy Gambrell.

Fiction: Lafcadio Hearn, In a Cup of Tea  //  Ueda Akinari, The Chrysanthemum Pledge  //  Kyōgoku Natsuhiko,

Three Old Tales of Terror  //  Miyuki Miyabe, The Futon Room  //  Okamoto Kidō, Here Lies a Flute  //  Tanaka Kōtarō,

The Face in the Hearth  //  Kōda Rohan, Visions of Beyond  // Takemori Inagaki Taruho, The Inō Residence, or, The

Competition with a Ghost  //  Yamamoto Shūgorō, Through the Wooden Gate  //  Sugiura Hinako, Three Eerie Tales

of Dark Nights

Essays: Lafcadio Hearn, The Value of the Supernatural in Fiction

Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from Japan, Volume 2: Country Delights

Higashi Masao, ed.

2010

<  October 2010, 1st edition

Kurodahan Press

ISBN 978-4-902075-09-0

Trade paperback, xiv+289 pages

$16.00

Notes:

  •  Preface by Robert Weinberg, 'Introduction: "The Rise of Japanese Weird Fiction"' by Higashi Masao.

  •  Interior art by Dorothy Gambrell.

Fiction: Kunio Yanagita, Selections from Legends of Tōno  //  Natsume Soseki, The Third Night, from Ten Nights  

Dream  //  Izumi Kyōka, Sea Daemons  //  Hirai Teiichi, Midnight Encounters  //  Takahashi Katsuhiko, Reunion  //  

Uchida Hyakken, A Short Night  //  Komatsu Sakyō, The Kudan's Mother  //  Jōkichi Hikage, The Clock Tower of Yon  

//  Nakajima Atsushi, The Mummy  //  Akiyama Ayuko, Only Child

Kaiki: Uncanny Tales from Japan, Volume 3: Tales of the Metropolis

Higashi Masao, ed.

2012

<  March 2012, 1st edition

Kurodahan Press

ISBN 978-4-902075-10-6

Trade paperback, xvi+302 pages

$16.00

Notes:

  •  Preface by Robert Weinberg, 'Introduction: "Earthquakes, Lightning, Fire, and Father"' by Higashi Masao.

  •  Interior art by Dorothy Gambrell.

Fiction: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, A Bizarre Reunion  //  Murayama Kaita, The Diabolical Tongue  //  Tanizaki

Jun'ichirō, The Face  //  Yoshio Toyoshima, Ghosts of the Metropolis  //  Edogawa Rampo, Doctor Mera's Mysterious

Crimes  //  Minagawa Hiroko, The Midsummer Emissary  //  Jūran Hisao, In Thy Shadow  //  Endō Shūsaku, Spider  

//  Masao Yamakawa, The Talisman  //  Yasunari Kawabata, The Arm   //  Akae Baku, Expunged by Yakumo  //  

Morohoshi Daijirō, A Sinister Spectre