Ghost Story Kaidan

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The ghost, the dead returned: the English antiquarian ghost story and its haunted house, and in Japan the kaidan — the tales Lafcadio Hearn gathered, and the onryo, the wronged ghost (most often a woman, her long hair unbound) who comes back for vengeance. The onryo would become the very spine of modern Japanese horror. — genre history