Kwaidan: Japanese
Ghost Stories
A collection of traditional spooky tales
Wabei Translation
Lots of translated folktales and some myths from the Kojiki.
Old Stories of
Japan
One of the most comprehensive folktale sites I've ever found.
Japanese Folktales
Collection of traditional tales, with a separate section for supernatural lovers
Shannon’s Japanese Temple
Nice general site with several folktales, myths and superstitions, including some
modern urban legends.
The Folktales of Fukushima
Some traditional tales from northern Honshu, complete with soundfiles.
Japanese Mythology
Myths from the Kojiki, and the White Rabbit of Inaba
P-Sona Japanese Folktale
World
Regional folktales from all around the Japanese islands. They don’t update
quite as often as the stated once a week, but it’s still a great collection.
In Ghostly Japan
Online edition of Lafcadio Hearn’s book.
Japanese
Ghost Stories
Some of the best known spooky stories.
Japanese Old Tales
Read traditional tales in your choice of languages. Internet Archived.
Kwaidan
The complete text of Lafcadio Hearn’s collection of ghost stories, including “Yukionna” and
“Hoichi the Earless”
The Last of the Zashiki Warashi
A childlike ghost who stays in a house’s best room.
Japanese Legends, Folktales and Ghost Stories:
Smith, Richard Gordon. Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan. Bracken Books, 1986. ISBN 0-946495-78-5
Tyler, Royall, ed. Japanese Tales. Pantheon Books, 1987. ISBN 0-394-52190-0
Dorson, Richard M. Folk Legends of Japan. Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1966.
Ozaki, Yei Theodora, comp. Japanese Fairy Tales. Grosset & Dunlap.
James, Grace. Japanese Fairy Tales. Senate, 1996. ISBN 1-85958-192-7
Naito, Hiroshi, ed. Legends of Japan. Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1972.
Ury, Marian. Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection. University of California Press, 1979. ISBN 0-520-05467-9
Mitford, A. B. Tales of Old Japan. Wordsworth Editions Limited, 2000. ISBN 1-84022-510-6
Davis, F. Hadland. Myths and Legends of Japan. Dover Publications, 1992. ISBN 0-486-27045-9
Hearn, Lafcadio. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1971. ISBN 0-8048-0954-2