Ben Hewer-Darroch's Reviews > Of Ghosts and Goblins

I was going to clown on this dude for doing “Keikau means plan” in the 1890s, and i will do that, but this ended up being a really enjoyable read. The stories are short but interesting and this clothbound mini edition is very pretty and nice to hold. My one gripe is that they added no information or context about the stories or author. Im used to these kinds of modern reprintings at least having some foreword explaining what you are about to read and the context it was written in. Was annoyed i had to do all my own research without any base knowledge to even begin understanding why this Irish dude was writing japanese folktales. I still don’t even know how many of them are collected retellings vs original works by the author! Anyway fun read i liked the one about the man with an egg face that reads like a reddit two sentence horror.