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Inside a ferryman's hut, Lafcadio Hearn recorded Yuki Onna—the Edo-period kaidan of a snow spirit who spares a woodcutter, then returns to marry him.

A blind biwa priest is summoned nightly to play for ghostly nobles in Akamagaseki, a chilling Edo-period kaidan from Japanese folklore.

Inside Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's 1927 novella Kappa — the psychiatric patient who fell into the river-spirit country, lived among the kappa for a year, and tried to climb back to a world that no longer felt like home.

Inside the 1666 Edo kaidan of the Peony Lantern (Botan Dōrō) — a masterless samurai, a ghostly woman, and the talisman that dissolved in the rain.