Summary Bibliography: Lafcadio Hearn

Author: Lafcadio Hearn Author Record # 19738
Legal Name: Hearn, Patrick Lafcadio Tessima Carlos
Birthplace: Lefkada, United States of the Ionian Islands
Birthdate: 27 June 1850
Deathdate: 26 September 1904
Language: English
Webpages: Encyclopedia of Fantasy, IMDB, Library of Congress, Wikipedia-EN, Wikipedia-JA
Used These Alternate Names: Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, Yakumo Koisumi
Note: 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)
Author Tags: Librivox (11), pgh (4), Japan (3), zombies (2), fantasy (2), ghosts (2), dead hand (1), feudal lord (1), Nineteenth century (1), jealousy (1), haunted portrait (1), Internet Archive (1), eternal love (1), animals (1), ducks (1), hunting (1), remorse (1), dream (1), China (1)

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Fiction Series

Japanese Fairy Tale Series
- 23 The Boy Who Drew Cats (1898) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Translation: Le gamin qui dessinait des chats [French] (1980)
  - Translation: Il ragazzo che disegnava gatti [Italian] (2022)
- 24 The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumpling (1902) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Variant: The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumplings (1908) [as by uncredited]
  - Variant: The Old Woman Who Lost Her Dumplings (1982)
  - Translation: La vecchietta che perse il raviolo [Italian] (2022)
- 25 Chin-Chin Kobakama (1903) [SF] also appeared as:
  - Variant: Chin-Chin Kobakama (1903) [as by uncredited]
  - Variant: Chin Chin Kobokama (2019)
  - Translation: Chin Chin Kobakama [Italian] (2022)
- Japanese Fairy Tales (1931) [C] only appeared as:
  - Translation: Fiabe giapponesi [Italian] (2022)
- Japanese Fairy Tale Series-Series 2
  - 1 The Goblin-Spider (1899) [SF] also appeared as:
    - Translation: Il ragno-goblin [Italian] (2022)

Collections

Some Chinese Ghosts (1887) also appeared as:
- Variant: Chinese Ghost Stories: Curious Tales of the Supernatural (2011)
In Ghostly Japan (1899) also appeared as:
- Variant: In Ghostly Japan: Japanese Legends of Ghosts, Yokai, Yurei and Other Oddities (2021)
Shadowings (1900)
A Japanese Miscellany (1901)
Kottō: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs^?Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs
(1902)
Kwaidan (1904) also appeared as:
- Variant: Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904)
- Variant: Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales of Old Japan (2006)
- Variant: Kwaidan: Weird Tales from Japan (2012)
- Variant: Kwaidan: Ghost Stories of Lafcadio Hearn (2015)
- Variant: Kwaidan: Terrifying Japanese Tales of Yokai, Ghosts, and Demons (2022)
The Romance of the Milky Way and Other Studies and Stories (1905)
Fantastics and Other Fancies (1914)
Karma (1918)
Karma, and Other Stories & Essays (1921)
Tales Out of the East (1952)
Fantômes du Japon [French] (1980)
Oriental Ghost Stories (2007)
Nightmare-Touch (2010)
Insect Literature (2015)
The Lafcadio Hearn Collection (2017)
Κινέζικα Φαντάσματα^?Kinezika Fantasmata
[Greek] (2018)
7 Best Short Stories by Lafcadio Hearn (2019)
Short Stories (2019)
Japanese Tales of Lafcadio Hearn (2019)
Japanese Ghost Stories (2019)
Selected Ghost Stories from Kwaidan (2022)
Of Ghosts and Goblins (2022)
The Kwaidan Collection (2023)
Supernatural Tales from Japan: Ghosts, Goblins, Demons and Magic (2024) with Yei Theodora Ozaki

Omnibus

The Selected Writings of Lafcadio Hearn (1949) [O]

Chapbooks

The Fountain of Youth (1922)

Short Fiction

The Cedar Closet (1874) [also as by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn]
All in White (1879)
The Night of All Saints (1879)
The Devil's Carbuncle (1879)
Les Coulisses (1879)
The Chemise of Margarita Pareja (1880)
The Stranger (1880)
Y Porque? (1880)
A Dream of Kites (1880)
Hereditary Memories (1880)
The Ghostly Kiss (1880)
The Black Cupid (1880)
When I Was a Flower (1880) also appeared as:
- Translation: Als ich eine Blume war [German] (1922)
Metempsychosis (1880)
The Undying One (1880)
The Vision of the Dead Creole (1880)
A Creole Mystery (1880)
The Name on the Stone (1880)
Aphrodite and the King's Prisoner (1880) also appeared as:
- Variant: Aphrodite and King's Prisoner (2010)
The Fountain of Gold (1880)
A Dead Love (1880) also appeared as:
- Translation: Tote Liebe [German] (1922)
At the Cemetery (1880)
"Aïda" (1881) also appeared as:
- Variant: Aïda (2019)
El Vómito (1881) also appeared as:
- Translation: El Vomito [German] (1922)
The Idyl of a French Snuff-Box (1881)
Spring Phantoms (1881)
A Kiss Fantastical (1881)
The Bird and the Girl (1881)
The Tale of a Fan (1881)
A Legend (1881) also appeared as:
- Translation: Eine Legende [German] (2021)
The Gipsy's Story (1881)
The One Pill-Box (1881)
A River Reverie (1882)
"His Heart Is Old" (1882)
MDCCCLIII (1882) also appeared as:
- Translation: Die Pest [German] (1922)
Hiouen-thsang (1882)
The Bird Wife (1884)
The Book of Thoth (1884)
The First Muezzin, Bilâl (1884)
The Fountain Maiden (1884)
The Legend of the Monster Misfortune (1884)
The Magical Words (1884)
L'Amour après la Mort (1884)
The Post-Office (1884)
The Legend of Tchi-Niu (1885) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Legend of Zhi Nü (1887)
The Return of Yen-Tchin-King (1887) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Return of Yan Zhenjing (1887)
The Soul of the Great Bell (1887)
The Story of Ming-Y (1887) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Story of Ming Yi (1887)
The Tale of the Porcelain-God (1887) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Tale of the Porcelain God (1887)
The Tradition of the Tea-Plant (1887) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Tradition of the Tea Plant (1887)
The Country of the Comers-Back (1889)
A Ghost (1889)
La Guiablesse (1890)
Yé (1890)
Karma (1890)
The Writing of Kōbōdaishi^?The Writing of Kobodaishi
(1894) only appeared as:
- Translation: Le prêtre "qui écrit avec cinq pinceaux en même temps" [French] (1980)
The Dream of a Summer Day (1894) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le songe d'un jour d'été [French] (1980)
Of Ghosts and Goblins (1894)
In Cholera-Time (1896)
The Nun of the Temple of Amida (1896)
Ningyô-no-Haka (1897) also appeared as:
- Variant: Ningyo-no Haka (2015)
The Rebirth of Katsugoro (1897) only appeared as:
- Translation: L'enfant qui naquit deux fois [French] (1980)
Within the Circle (1897) only appeared as:
- Translation: "...Et le temps lui-même est une illusion" [French] (1980)
Vespertina Cognitio (1898)
A Passional Karma (1899) also appeared as:
- Variant: Lantern (1899)
- Translation: Histoire des fantômes dans le roman de La Lanterne pivoine [French] (1980)
A Story of Divination (1899) also appeared as:
- Translation: Celui que le passé désigna pour connaître l'avenir [French] (1980)
Fragment (1899) also appeared as:
- Variant: In Ghostly Japan: Fragment (1899)
- Translation: Sur la montagne des crânes d'hommes [French] (1980)
- Translation: Fragmento [Spanish] (2015)
Furisodé (1899) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le grand incendie de la robe aux longues manches [French] (1980)
Ingwa-Banashi (1899) also appeared as:
- Variant: Evil Karma (1965)
- Variant: The Hands of the Karma (1975)
- Translation: La morte aux mains vivantes [French] (1980)
- Variant: The Hands of Karma (Ingwa-banashi) (2006)
Story of a Tengu (1899) also appeared as:
- Translation: Celui qui voulait rencontrer Bouddha [French] (1980)
A Legend of Fugen-Bosatsu (1900) also appeared as:
- Translation: Celui qui voulait voir l'éléphant blanc à six défenses [French] (1980)
The Corpse-Rider (1900) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le chevaucheur du cadavre [French] (1980)
The Gratitude of the Samébito (1900) also appeared as:
- Translation: La reconnaissance de l'homme-requin [French] (1980)
The Reconciliation (1900) also appeared as:
- Variant: Black Hair (1976)
- Translation:
  Återföreningen^?Aaterföreningen
  [Swedish] (1979)
- Translation: La première femme du Samuraï [French] (1980)
The Screen-Maiden (1900) also appeared as:
- Translation: Celui qui tomba amoureux d'un portrait [French] (1980)
The Sympathy of Benten (1900) also appeared as:
- Translation: Celui qui épousa deux fois la même femme [French] (1980)
Before the Supreme Court (1901) also appeared as:
- Translation: Devant la cour suprême [French] (1980)
Drifting (1901)
Of a Promise Broken (1901)
Of a Promise Kept (1901)
The Story of Kōgi the Priest^?The Story of Kogi the Priest
(1901)
The Story of Kwashin Koji (1901) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le tableau qui avait une âme [French] (1980)
The Story of Umétsu Chūbei^?The Story of Umetsu Chubei
(1901) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le samuraï qui fit ouvrir les portes de la naissance [French] (1980)
- Variant: The Story of Umétsu Chubei (2010)
A Matter of Custom (1902)
Common Sense (1902)
Ikiryō^?Ikiryo
(1902) also appeared as:
- Variant: Ikiryo (1902)
- Translation: Le magasin de porcelaines hanté par la haine [French] (1980)
In a Cup of Tea (1902) also appeared as:
- Translation: Celui qui avala un fantôme [French] (1980)
Shiryō^?Shiryo
(1902) also appeared as:
- Translation: La mort qui protesta contre ses voleurs [French] (1980)
Story of a Fly (1902) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le message de la mouche [French] (1980)
Story of a Pheasant (1902) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le faisan et le parricide [French] (1980)
The Legend of Yurei-Daki (1902) also appeared as:
- Translation: La légende de la "Cascade des Esprits" [French] (1980)
The Story of Chūgorō^?The Story of Chugoro
(1902) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Story of Chugoro (1902)
- Variant: The Story of Chûgorô (1902)
- Translation: Der Fall Chûgôrô [German] (1925)
- Translation: Der Fall Chugoro [German] (1925)
- Translation: Le vampire au fond des eaux [French] (1980)
- Translation: Histoire de Chûgorô [French] (1995)
The Story of O-Kamé (1902) also appeared as:
- Translation: La morte trop aimante [French] (1980)
The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hōïchi^?The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi
(1903) also appeared as:
- Translation: La légende de Mimi-Nashi-Hôichi [French] (1910) [as by Yakumo Koisumi]
- Translation: Légende de Mimi-Nashi-Hôichi [French] (1910) [as by Yakumo Koisumi]
- Variant:
  Hōichi the Earless^?Hoichi the Earless
  (1965)
- Translation: La historia de Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi [Spanish] (1974)
- Variant: Höïchi-the-Earless (1976)
- Translation: La historia de Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi [Spanish] (1977)
- Translation: L'aveugle qui faisait pleurer les morts [French] (1980)
- Translation: Hoichi-sans-oreilles [French] (2005)
- Variant: The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoïchi (2010)
- Variant: Hoichi the Earless (Mimi-nashi Hoichi no Hanashi) (2022)
The Dream of Akinosuké (1904) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le rêve du papillon et de la fourmi [French] (1980)
- Translation: Il sogno di Akinosuké [Italian] (1993)
- Variant: The Dream of Akinosuke (2007)
- Translation: Akinosukes Traum [German] (2014)
A Dead Secret (1904) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le secret que la morte voulait effacer [French] (1980)
Diplomacy (1904) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le décapité qui mordit la pierre [French] (1980)
Hōrai^?Horai
(1904) also appeared as:
- Translation: La ville qui ne connaît pas la mort et la douleur [French] (1980)
Hi-Mawari (1904)
Jikininki (1904) also appeared as:
- Translation: Jikininki [Dutch] (1966)
- Translation: Le mangeur de cadavres [French] (1980)
Jiu-Roku-Zakura (1904) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le "cerisier du seizième jour" [French] (1980)
Mujina (1904) also appeared as:
- Translation: Mujina [French] (1910) [as by Yakumo Koisumi]
- Translation: Le fantôme sans visage [French] (1980)
- Translation: Perdere la faccia [Italian] (1991)
Of a Mirror and a Bell (1904) also appeared as:
- Translation: À propos d'un miroir et d'une cloche [French] (1980)
Oshidori (1904) also appeared as:
- Translation: La mort d'un canard sauvage [French] (1980)
Riki-Baka (1904)
Rokuro-Kubi (1904) also appeared as:
- Translation: La leyenda de los duendes descabezados [Spanish] (1933)
- Translation: Le fantôme à la tête coupée [French] (1980)
- Translation: Rokuro-Kubi [French] (2002)
The Story of Aoyagi (1904) also appeared as:
- Translation: L'histoire de "Saule vert" [French] (1980)
The Story of O-Tei (1904) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le mariage posthume [French] (1980)
Ubazakura (1904)
Yuki-Onna (1904) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Woman of the Snow (1970)
- Translation: La femme de la neige [French] (1980)
- Variant: Woman of the Snow (1996)
The Story of Itō Norisuké^?The Story of Ito Norisuké
(1905) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Story of Ito Norisuké (1905)
- Translation: Légende du village-des-joueurs-de-koto [French] (1980)
Stranger Than Fiction (1905)
The Mirror Maiden (1905) also appeared as:
- Translation: La prisonnière du miroir [French] (1980)
The Fountain of Youth (1922) also appeared as:
- Translation: La Fonte della giovinezza [Italian] (2022)
The Jewel Insect (1957)
The Legend of Last Island (1971)
The Waterfall of Ghosts (1987) with Robert D. San Souci
Some Notes on the "Zombi" (excerpt from 'Two Years in the French West Indies' ) (2015)
By the Japanese Sea (2015)
Yuki-Onno (2015)
The Ghost of O-kiku from "The Banchō Sarayashiki" or "The Lady of the Plates"^?The Ghost of O-kiku from "The Bancho Sarayashiki" or "The Lady of the Plates"
(2022)

Essays

Haceldama (1875)
The Mound Builders (1876)
Addenda (One of Cleopatra's Nights) (1882)
To the Reader (One of Cleopatra's Nights) (1882)
Glossary (Some Chinese Ghosts) (1887) also appeared as:
- Variant: Glossary (Chinese Ghost Stories) (1887)
Notes (Some Chinese Ghosts) (1887) also appeared as:
- Variant: Notes (Chinese Ghost Stories) (1887)
Preface (Some Chinese Ghosts) (1887) also appeared as:
- Variant: Preface (Chinese Ghost Stories) (1887)
The Value of the Supernatural in Fiction (1896)
China and the Western World (1896)
Autopsie d'une légende (1897) only appeared as:
- Translation: Autopsie d'une légende (L'enfant qui naquit deux fois) [French] (1980)
The Eternal Haunter (1898) also appeared as:
- Translation: Images de l'impossible [French] (1980)
In Ghostly Japan (1899)
At Yaidzu (1899)
Bits of Poetry (1899)
Footprints of the Buddha (1899)
Incense (1899)
Silkworms (1899)
Suggestion (1899)
Ululation (1899)
A Mystery of Crowds (1900)
Gothic Horror (1900)
In a Pair of Eyes (1900)
Levitation (1900)
Nightmare-Touch (1900)
Noctilucæ^?Noctilucae
(1900)
Readings from a Dream-Book (1900)
Sémi (1900)
Beside the Sea (1901)
Buddhist Names of Plants and Animals (1901)
Dragon-flies (1901)
Otokichi's Daruma (1901)
Songs of Japanese Children (1901)
Fireflies (1902)
Heiké-Gani^?Heike-Gani
(1902)
The Eater of Dreams (1902) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le mangeur de rêves [French] (1980)
Introduction (Kwaidan: Terrifying Japanese Tales of Yokai, Ghosts, and Demons) (1904)
Foreword (Kwaidan: Terrifying Japanese Tales of Yokai, Ghosts, and Demons) (1904)
Ants (1904)
Butterflies (1904)
Introduction (Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things) (1904)
Mosquitoes (1904)
The Romance of the Milky Way (1905)
Goblin Poetry (1905)
Glossary (1952)
A Ghost Story (2019)
Japanese Buddhist Proverbs (2021)

Non-Genre Titles

Collections

Chita; A Memory of Last Island (1889)

Short Fiction Series

Chita
- 1 The Legend of L'Île Dernière (1888)
- 2 Out of the Sea's Strength (1888)
- 3 The Shadow of the Tide (1888)

Short Fiction

The Little Red Kitten (1879)
Of a Dancing Girl (1893)
The Red Bridal (1894)
Haru (1896)

Summary Bibliography: Lafcadio Hearn

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