Weird Tales

The Strange Tales of Liao Zhai in Japanese editionOriginator of literature of the modern talesMirror of westerners looking into JapanThere are fifty-five weird stories in The Weird Tales, all of which are the rehearsal and rewriting by Kozumi Yakumo based on the famous Japanese classical literature, derived from The Strange Tales in Dream, Ghost Story at Night, Script of Ten Moral Standards, Konjaku Monogatri, Tales of a Pale and Mysterious Moon After the Rain, The Collection of Ancient and Modern Works, Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, New Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai and many other ancient Japanese books. These stories of darkness or loneliness are deeply favored by Japanese literature.The Weird Tales is an indirect embodiment of Japanese history, which also bears the aesthetic sense of the common culture in the East, and the aesthetic realm of the blend of eastern and western civilizations, which has high appreciation and understanding value.The book contains the illustrations of Kozumi's manuscripts and a number of ukiyoe by famous Japanese painters, making the translation valuable and precious.