Tales of the Ghost Sword — Hideyuki Kikuchi

Featuring short stories ‘Shadow Wife’, the tale of the vengeful swordsman prodigy Hisama Sakakibara, and ‘The Crawler’, the story of stubborn treasury official Genbei Chitsugi, this is a masterpiece collection of historical ghost stories depicting the pathos of lower-class samurai who live for an are held captive by the sword.