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Akutagawa, Ryunosuke. Japanese Short Stories translated by Takashi Kojima. New York: Liveright, 1970.
This collection by the author of "Rashomon" includes the noted tale, "The Hell Screen" and "The Spider's Thread." The title is misleading -- all the stories in this collection are by Akutagawa.
______. "Kesa and Morito" in Modern Japanese Literature edited by Donald Keene. New York: Evergreen, 1960.
Weird tale not included in the Japanese Short Stories collection.
______. "Autumn Mountain" in Black Water edited by Alberto Manguel. Picador, 1983.
______. "Sennin" in The Book of Fantasy edited J.L. Borges, Adolfo Casares and Silvina Ocampo. NY: Viking, 1989
Kurahashi, Yumiko. The Woman with the Flying Head, translated by Atsuko Sakaki. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1997.
A collection of fantasy tales, lapses into horror at some points.
Kyoka, Izumi. "A Tale of Three Who Were Blind" in Modern Japanese Literature edited by Donald Keene. New York: Evergreen, 1960.
Rampo, Edogawa. Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination. Tuttle, Vermont: 1956.
Rohan, Koda. Pagoda, Skull and Samurai. Tuttle, Vermont: 1985.
Worth seeking out for ghostly horror tale, "Encounter with a Skull," and the interesting notes at the end of each of the three stories.
Tanizaki, Junichiro. "The Tattooer" in Wolf's Complete Book of Terror. edited by Leonard Wolf. NY: Potter, 1979.
Ueda, Akinari. Tales of Moonlight and Rain: Japanese Gothic Tales, translated by Kenji Hamada. New York: Columbia UP, 1972.
Addiss, Stephen. Japanese Ghosts and Demons. New York: Brazilier, 1985.
Aston, William G. A History of Japanese Literature. Tuttle: 1972.
Bush, Laurence. Asian Horror Encyclopedia. iUniverse: 2001.
Davis, F. Hadland. Myths and Legends in Japan Dover: 1992. Reprint of 1913 classic study includes 32 illustrations and a bibliography.
Hearn, Lafcadio. In Ghostly Japan.
______. Kwaidan.
Iwasaka, Michiko and Toelken, Barre. Ghosts and the Japanese. Logan, Utah, Utah State UP: 1994.
Le Nestour, Patrick. The Mystery of Things: Evocations of the Japanese Supernatural. New York: Weatherhill, 1972.
Watanabe, Masao. The Japanese and Western Science, translated by Otto Theodor Benfey. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press: 1988.
Kurimoto, Kaoru. Shui-hu-Ch'uan in the inferno (Makai-Suiko-den). Kadokawa Pocket Edition. ISBN4-04-150017-6.
Santou, Kyouden. Honchou Suibodai. 1806.
_______. Inazuma Hioushi. 1805.
_______. Udonge Monogatari. 1804.
Yumeno, Kyusaku. Dogura Magura (Sorceries). Tokyo: Gendai Kyoto Bunko, 1935.
Reference works in English
Reprint of 1899 original. Perhaps the first book in English that made a comprehensive look at Japanese literature. Aston claimed that direct knowledge of Japanese literature was a recent event. No English-speaking person could read a single page of Japanese prior to the 1860's!
Contains an interesting discussion of Japanese magic-mirrors and their relationship to a story by Edogawa Rampo.
Japanese fiction
Seminal novel of the Japanese Cthulhu mythos!