Koizumi Yakumo 
Weird Japanese Stories 

In order to cling to the wealthy family, the destitute samurai joined forces with outsiders to mutilate his pregnant wife, resulting in one corpse and two lives. The angry souls returned to take revenge, but the tragedy was irreversible. The man fell in love with the beautiful woman with a lantern in the middle of the night, but unexpectedly the woman was a ghost. The man covered the house with ghost-repelling talismans, and the ghosts cried and lingered outside the house all day long. It turned out that the man was her favorite lover during her lifetime. There was a strange noise from the wilderness, and the panicked traveler desperately asked the old woman who lived nearby for help. However, the old woman suddenly turned into a monster in the middle of the night, and the traveler was in danger…It is a bitter and warm collection of stories that includes monster legends and tales from all over Japan, such as the familiar Ghost of Yotsuya, Biwa Hoshi, Gempei Gassen, and Ghost of the Haunted House. Every character in the book is tangible, and every story has flesh and blood, which is the essence of Japanese traditional culture. It is full of terror and a strong folk customs. More than 30 monster legends take you into another Japan.