Lafcadio Hearn

Fantastics and Other Fancies (Wildside Fantasy) Lafcadio Hearn

"One of the real advantages of print on demand publishing is that it is bringing back into print some of those titles I've heard of and seen at conventions for years, but for which I'm unwilling to pay the high prices the aging books demand. This is a case in point. I've read a very few Hearn stories before, enough to be interested in finding some more, and now I have two books full of his work. The first was . . . a series of sketches he did over a period of a few years (1878-1882). Most of them are related to New Orleans and most have at least a hint of the fantastic, although some are just prose poems and have no real story. They include such things as ghosts, curses, fairies, ancient Egypt, haunted places, gypsies, lost valleys, the risen dead, immortality, reincarnation, and inherited memories." -- Don D'Ammassa, Science Fiction Chronicle