In all English-language literature it is difficult to find a writer more mysterious and strange than Lafcadio Hearn. Rather, it is as mysterious and strange as the strange and mysterious stories he wrote. There are housewives. Sitting at a desk, squeaking with a pen or knocking on the keys . Lafcadio Hearn of the Others . He changed things all the time.... Homeland, citizenship, name, language writer-recati-field. He was Greek, Irish, American, lived on the island of Mauritius and all this in order to finally establish himself in Japan and from Patrick Lafcadio Hearn to turn into Yakumo Koizumi .. These are the metamorphoses of .. Stories written by him are full of ghosts and strange events. Japan, he described, is an unreal, fantastic country in which demon kings and the most ordinary people get along. Because, as he once said, “Art does not exist without fantasy.” It's really fantastic.".