First published in the Atlantic Monthly, March 1904.
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 | Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | Houghton Mifflin | Collection | 143 | |
| March 1904 | The Atlantic Monthly, March 1904 | Houghton, Mifflin and Company | MAGAZINE | 340 | |
| April 1904 |
|
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | Houghton Mifflin | Collection | 143 |
| July 1937 |
|
Fifty Enthralling Stories of the Mysterious East | Odhams Press | Anthology | 246 |
| 1949 |
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The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn | Citadel Press | Omnibus | 73 |
| March 1965 | 50 Great Oriental Stories | Bantam Books | Anthology | 160 | |
| 1971 |
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The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn | Citadel Press | Omnibus | 73 |
| 1980 |
|
Fantômes du Japon | Union générale d'éditions | Collection | 39 |
| October 1991 |
|
Faeries | Roc / New American Library | Anthology | 121 |
| November 1991 |
|
The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn | Citadel Press | Omnibus | 73 |
| August 1993 |
|
Il regno incantato | Mondadori | Anthology | 135 |
| October 1993 |
|
Le mangeur de rêves | 10/18 | Collection | 56 |
| 2000 |
|
Faeries | Barnes & Noble Books | Anthology | 121 |
| June 2004 |
|
Kwaidan | Cosimo Classics | Collection | 143 |
| June 2007 |
|
Oriental Ghost Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | 99 |
| January 2010 |
|
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | SMK Books | Collection | 56 |
| February 2010 | Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | Project Gutenberg | Collection | |143 | |
| April 2010 |
|
Nightmare-Touch | Tartarus Press | Collection | |
| May 2013 |
|
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | CreateSpace | Collection | 47 |
| May 2014 |
|
Aut Diabolus Aut Nihil: Bevor Lovecraft kam: US-amerikanische Phantastik der Dekadenzzeit: Band 2 | Blitz | Anthology | 63 |
| May 2014 |
|
Principesse e Mononoke: Storie di fantasmi giapponesi | Kappalab | Collection | |14 |
| September 2015 |
|
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | Evertype | Collection | 100 |
| October 2015 |
|
Insect Literature | Swan River Press | Collection | 262 |
| February 2018 |
|
Principesse e Mononoke: Storie di fantasmi giapponesi | Kappalab | Collection | |14 |
| March 2018 |
|
The Classic Fantasy Collection | Sirius / Arcturus Publishing | Anthology | 453 |
| March 2019 |
|
Short Stories | Sirius / Arcturus Publishing | Collection | 339 |
| April 2019 |
|
Tales of Japan: Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic | Chronicle Books | Anthology | 10 |
| May 2019 |
|
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | Unicorn Publishing Group | Collection | |
| July 2019 |
|
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn | Princeton University Press | Collection | 185 |
| July 2019 |
|
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn | Princeton University Press | Collection | |185 |
| July 2019 |
|
Japanese Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 180 |
| July 2019 |
|
Japanese Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | |33 |
| June 2021 |
|
Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird | The British Library | Anthology | 141 |
| December 2022 |
|
Storie di fantasmi giapponesi | Kappalab | Collection | |14 |
| February 2023 |
|
Mononoké, histoires de fantômes japonais | Ynnis Éditions | Collection | 121 |
| February 2023 |
|
Mononoké, histoires de fantômes japonais | Ynnis Éditions | Collection | |16 |
| November 2023 |
|
Japanese Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 211 |
| June 2024 |
|
The Mad Butterfly's Ball | PS Publishing | Anthology | |10 |