As well as providing a much needed perspective on Hearn's Japan years, this study offers a much more informed view of Hearn's life, times and writings than seen before.
List of illustrations, Foreword, by Roy Foster, Acknowledgement, Introduction, 1 Discovering Hearn, 2 Ghoul, 3 New Orleans, 4 Some Chinese Ghosts, 5 Two Years in the French West Indies, 6 Yokohama, 7 Matsue, 8 Kumamoto, 9 Kobe, 10 Tokyo, 11 Ancestral Voices, 12 Terror in the Dark, 13 Devil's Boy, 14 In Ghostly Japan, 15 An Attempt at Interpretation, 16 Posthumous, Abbreviations, References, Bibliography
