Lafcadio Hearn

I'd recommend Hearn to anyone interested in
classic ghost stories or japanese culture. Hearn was
one of the first westerners to become a scholar of
japanese culture. He re-tells traditional ghost stories
in Kwaidan.
The film by Kobayashi is availble from Netflix. It's
the complete 4 stories. (I have seen a shortened 3
story version.) Classic japanese film. Also recommend otheer Kobayashi's: Human Condition,
Harakiri, Samurai Rebellion, etc.

Lafcadio Hearn has always been a favorite author. I have read almost all his work except what he wrote about the West Indies. I think him an excellent author. I will have to check the movies out on Netflix.

It's been a while, but I'd recommend the
Carribean stories as well. Supposedly, Hearn married a voodoo priestess before he went to
Japan! What a wild, exotic life he had.

A voodoo priestess? Seems like a divorce might have been tricky.

That's what I was wondering. Probably a minor detail in 1900.

I just finished a book by Lafcadio Hearn titled Some strange English literary figures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book was based on a series of lectures Hearn gave at a Japanese university. It was an interesting book and I do recommend it to all fans of Lafcadio and/or eighteenth and nineteenth century literature.

I have just bought a copy of his Oriental Ghost Stories from Kwaidan,in Ghostly Japan,and Some Chinese Ghosts which looks as though it is going to be an interesting read.

I just bought a modern 2nd edition of Hearn's only cookbook, La Cuisine Creole. As it says on the cover, "Classic recipes collected in 1885 from leading chefs and noted Creole housewives." It's 268 pages, paperback, republished by Applewood Press, and was written near the culmination of Lafcadio Hearn's 12 years in New Orleans, Louisiana. It's now sitting in my cookbook collection, where I will use it during Mardi Gras week at least.

Interesting---I've always associated Hearn exclusively with New Orleans. I didn't realize there was a cookbook, and now I have to seek it out! Thanks for the tip.