The Yotsuya Kwaidan; or, O'Iwa Inari

About this book

A betrayed wife returns from death with a face transformed by suffering and vengeance. Her haunting reaches far beyond the husband who destroyed her life.

The Yotsuya Kwaidan is among Japan's most enduring ghost stories, and James S. de Benneville's version carries its jealousy, betrayal and supernatural retaliation into English prose. O'Iwa's image became part of the visual language of Japanese horror, especially in theatre and print. The tale's power comes from the cruelty that produces the apparition as much as from the ghost itself.