A pilgrim is pictured climbing a mountain of skulls reaching to the clouds, only to be told that the skulls have all been his own during the billion of his former lives.
First published in In Ghostly Japan (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1899).
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| October 1899 | In Ghostly Japan | Little, Brown | Collection | 1 | |
| 1911 | In Ghostly Japan | Little, Brown | Collection | 3 | |
| 1980 |
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Fantômes du Japon | Union générale d'éditions | Collection | 259 |
| October 1993 |
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Le mangeur de rêves | 10/18 | Collection | 371 |
| June 2004 |
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In Ghostly Japan | Capricorn Publishing | Collection | |
| May 2005 | In Ghostly Japan | Project Gutenberg | Collection | |1 | |
| June 2007 |
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Oriental Ghost Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | 125 |
| June 2009 |
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Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 3 | LibriVox | Anthology | |5 |
| April 2010 |
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Nightmare-Touch | Tartarus Press | Collection | |
| June 2011 |
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In Ghostly Japan | Tuttle Publishing | Collection | 3 |
| April 2013 |
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In Ghostly Japan | CreateSpace | Collection | 3 |
| September 2013 |
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In Ghostly Japan | CreateSpace | Collection | 1 |
| September 2015 |
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MaMuT, No. 1, September 2015 | Mamut | MAGAZINE | 54 |
| December 2015 |
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Kwaidan: Ghost Stories of Lafcadio Hearn | The Little Museum of Dublin | Collection | |8 |
| March 2019 |
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Short Stories | Sirius / Arcturus Publishing | Collection | 167 |
| July 2019 |
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Japanese Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 36 |
| July 2019 |
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Japanese Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | |8 |
| March 2021 |
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In Ghostly Japan: Japanese Legends of Ghosts, Yokai, Yurei and Other Oddities | Tuttle Publishing | Collection | 25 |
| November 2023 |
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Japanese Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 40 |