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— oh, what a delight!”Yukiko soon discovers that the woman’s corpse has somehow attached itself to her own body; doctors cannot pry it loose for fear of tearing Yukiko’s skin.
As the Meiji Restoration rapidly industrialized and modernized Japan, Hearn increasingly turned to out-of-fashion folktales and old stories of Yūrei: unfortunate souls … who return to torment the living.
For hours he sit upon the corpse of his dead wife, as the night turns black and strange around him.
In Hearn’s tales, the eerie landscape is the voice of the storyteller itself — it moves under its own power, guided by some unknown and unseen motivation.
Hearn, like his corpse rider, can do more than hold on for dear life.