{"product_id":"9781909488014","title":"Hyakumonogatari","description":"In Edo Period Japan, the game of Hyakumonogatari - or one hundred stories - was a popular pastime. A hundred candles in blue lanterns were lit and placed on a table before a mirror. Each person would tell a story of a ghost, monster or strange occurrence, then blow out one of the candles. When the last candle was blown out it was said that a horned blue spirit, Aoandon, would manifest in the mirror.\u003cp\u003eHyakumonogatari grew so popular that in 1908 the Japanese government forbade the telling of horror stories. Doubtless the gatherings carried on as a clandestine thrill, and what stories must have been told!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJapanese folklore is the strangest on earth. Its monsters and its ghosts (collectively known as yokai) outstrip any other culture in their sheer weirdness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere, in the first of a four-volume collection, is the beginning of a modern Hyakumonogatari. This menagerie of yokai includes hair-eating horrors, spawning dragon-gods, zombie whales, venomous rats, cannibal skeletons with slime-mould brains, ancient hominans, perverse water imps, devils of straw and monsters of cloth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSick of vampires and werewolves? This night parade of Japanese daemons will re-light your love of horror with a whole pantheon of new ghosts and monsters from the pen of Richard Freeman who brought you the acclaimed horror collection Green Unpleasant Land: 18 Tales of British Horror.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CFZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053871251696,"sku":"9781909488014","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781909488014_p0.jpg?v=1763624079","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781909488014","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}