Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. They can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that are difficult to achieve elsewhere.

In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?

The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme. Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature.

Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made. If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something.

In this volume we examine one of the great names from the past whose works invite life, rituals and the spirit world together to fashion dramatic and chilling unforeseen happenings.

1 - The Top 10 Short Stories - Lafcadio Hearn - An Introduction

2 - The Ghostly Kiss by Lafcadio Hearn

3 - L'Amour Apres La Mort by Lafcadio Hearn

4 - The Undying One by Lafcadio Hearn

5 - Stranger Than Fiction by Lafcadio Hearn

6 - Diplomacy by Lafcadio Hearn

7 - Before the Supreme Court by Lafcadio Hearn

8 - Of A Promise Broken by Lafcadio Hearn

9 - A Dead Secret by Lafcadio Hearn

10 - The Corpse Rider by Lafcadio Hearn

11 - The Vision of the Dead Creole by Lafcadio Hearn