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Lafcadio Hearn

Hearn, Patrick Lafcadio Tessima Carlos

June 27, 1850 – September 26, 1904 (aged 54)

Birth place: Lefkada, United States of the Ionian Islands

13 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
December 1889 116 Short Fiction A Ghost Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1889
August 1903 Short Fiction The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hōïchi The Atlantic Monthly, August 1903
March 1904 340 Short Fiction The Dream of Akinosuké The Atlantic Monthly, March 1904
January 1905 Short Fiction The Story of Ito Norisuké The Atlantic Monthly, January 1905
July 1983 290|290.13 Review Mujina Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1983
March 1984 12 Short Fiction When I Was a Flower Fantasy & Terror, #3
August 1999 20 Short Fiction Jikininki Lovecraft's Mystery Magazine, #3
November 2001 41|41.01 Review Fantastics and Other Fancies Science Fiction Chronicle, #218 November 2001
November 2001 41|41.02 Review Some Chinese Ghosts Science Fiction Chronicle, #218 November 2001
April 2016 83|83.1 Review Insect Literature The Green Book, Bealtaine 2016
April 2016 97|97.2 Review Kwaidan: Ghost Stories of Lafcadio Hearn The Green Book, Bealtaine 2016
May 2016 |8.03 Review Insect Literature Black Static, May-June 2016
2021 83|83.1 Short Fiction Yuki-Onna Kaidankai, Days 78-84

34 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1887 Collection Some Chinese Ghosts Lafcadio Hearn
1889 Collection Chita; A Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn
1899 Collection In Ghostly Japan Lafcadio Hearn
1900 Collection Shadowings Lafcadio Hearn
1901 Collection A Japanese Miscellany Lafcadio Hearn
1902 Collection Kottō: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs Lafcadio Hearn
1904 Collection Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things Lafcadio Hearn
1905 Collection The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies and Stories Lafcadio Hearn
1914 Collection Fantastics and Other Fancies Lafcadio Hearn
1918 Collection Karma Lafcadio Hearn
1921 Collection Karma, and Other Stories & Essays Lafcadio Hearn
1922 Chapbook The Fountain of Youth Lafcadio Hearn
1949 Omnibus The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn
1952 Collection Tales Out of the East Lafcadio Hearn
2004 Collection Kwaidan Lafcadio Hearn
2006 Collection Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales of Old Japan Lafcadio Hearn
2007 Collection Oriental Ghost Stories Lafcadio Hearn
2010 Collection Nightmare-Touch Lafcadio Hearn
2011 Collection Chinese Ghost Stories: Curious Tales of the Supernatural Lafcadio Hearn
2012 Collection Kwaidan: Weird Tales from Japan Lafcadio Hearn
2015 Collection Insect Literature Lafcadio Hearn
2015 Collection Kwaidan: Ghost Stories of Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn
2017 Collection The Lafcadio Hearn Collection Lafcadio Hearn
2019 Collection 7 Best Short Stories by Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn
2019 Collection Japanese Ghost Stories Lafcadio Hearn
2019 Collection Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn
2019 Collection Short Stories Lafcadio Hearn
2021 Collection In Ghostly Japan: Japanese Legends of Ghosts, Yokai, Yurei and Other Oddities Lafcadio Hearn
2022 Collection Kwaidan: Terrifying Japanese Tales of Yokai, Ghosts, and Demons Lafcadio Hearn
2022 Collection Of Ghosts and Goblins Lafcadio Hearn
2022 Collection Selected Ghost Stories from Kwaidan Lafcadio Hearn
2023 Collection The Kwaidan Collection Lafcadio Hearn
2024 Collection Supernatural Tales from Japan: Ghosts, Goblins, Demons and Magic Lafcadio Hearn & Yei Theodora Ozaki
2025 Collection Some Japanese Ghosts Lafcadio Hearn

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2025 Locus Poll Award Best Art Book Supernatural Tales from Japan: Ghosts, Goblins, Demons and Magic Finalist


Hearn moved to the US in 1869. As "a literary Columbus" he reported from the West Indies and beginning in 1890 from Japan, where he married, raised a family, and became a subject. --"The Mystic Dream of Lafcadio Hearn", Current Literature 42.1 (January 1907) pp. 49-53; review of Bisland, Life and Letters (Houghton Mifflin)
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