First published in Kwaidan (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, April 1904).
| Date | Publication | Publisher | Type | Page | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 | Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | Houghton Mifflin | Collection | 75 | |
| April 1904 |
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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | Houghton Mifflin | Collection | 75 |
| 1949 |
|
The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn | Citadel Press | Omnibus | 48 |
| 1953 |
|
Tales to Be Told in the Dark: A Selection of Stories from the Great Authors, Arranged for Reading and Telling Aloud | Dodd, Mead & Co. | Anthology | 236 |
| 1953 |
|
Tales to Be Told in the Dark | Faber and Faber | Anthology | 194 |
| 1960 |
|
Horror Stories from Tales to Be Told in the Dark | Ballantine Books | Anthology | 101 |
| 1964 | Tales to Be Told in the Dark: A Selection of Stories from the Great Authors, Arranged for Reading and Telling Aloud | Dodd, Mead & Co. | Anthology | 236 | |
| January 1965 |
|
Horror Stories from Tales to Be Told in the Dark | Ballantine Bal-Hi | Anthology | 101 |
| May 1967 |
|
Tales to Be Told in the Dark | Faber and Faber | Anthology | 194 |
| January 1969 |
|
Horror Stories from Tales to Be Told in the Dark | Ballantine Bal-Hi | Anthology | 101 |
| October 1969 |
|
Horror Stories from Tales to Be Told in the Dark | Ballantine Bal-Hi | Anthology | 101 |
| 1971 |
|
The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn | Citadel Press | Omnibus | 48 |
| 1973 | Adventure and Suspense | Scholastic | Anthology | 186 | |
| June 1979 |
|
Wolf's Complete Book of Terror | Clarkson N. Potter | Anthology | 259 |
| June 1979 |
|
Wolf's Complete Book of Terror | Clarkson N. Potter | Anthology | 259 |
| May 1988 |
|
The Monster Book of Monsters | Xanadu | Anthology | 293 |
| August 1988 |
|
The Monster Book of Monsters | Bonanza Books | Anthology | 293 |
| November 1991 |
|
The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn | Citadel Press | Omnibus | 48 |
| April 1992 |
|
The Little Book of Horrors | Xanadu | Anthology | 55 |
| June 2004 |
|
Kwaidan | Cosimo Classics | Collection | 75 |
| February 2006 |
|
The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2005: Haven't I Read This Before? | Ash-Tree Press | Anthology | 206 |
| June 2007 |
|
Oriental Ghost Stories | Wordsworth Editions | Collection | 59 |
| January 2010 |
|
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | SMK Books | Collection | 32 |
| February 2010 | Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | Project Gutenberg | Collection | |75 | |
| April 2010 |
|
Nightmare-Touch | Tartarus Press | Collection | |
| April 2013 |
|
Short Ghost and Horror Story Collection 20 | LibriVox | Anthology | |9 |
| May 2013 |
|
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | CreateSpace | Collection | 25 |
| September 2015 |
|
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | Evertype | Collection | 44 |
| December 2015 |
|
Kwaidan: Ghost Stories of Lafcadio Hearn | The Little Museum of Dublin | Collection | |16 |
| December 2016 |
|
Great Horror Stories: 101 Chilling Tales | Fall River Press | Anthology | 413 |
| March 2019 |
|
Short Stories | Sirius / Arcturus Publishing | Collection | 301 |
| April 2019 |
|
Tales of Japan: Traditional Stories of Monsters and Magic | Chronicle Books | Anthology | 100 |
| May 2019 |
|
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things | Unicorn Publishing Group | Collection | |
| July 2019 |
|
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn | Princeton University Press | Collection | 145 |
| July 2019 |
|
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn | Princeton University Press | Collection | |145 |
| July 2019 |
|
Japanese Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 154 |
| July 2019 |
|
Japanese Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | |29 |
| November 2023 |
|
Japanese Ghost Stories | Penguin Books | Collection | 179 |