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The Country of the Comers-Back

The Country of the Comers-Back

Hearn, Lafcadio

Paperback

Horror

ISBN10: 1447403894
ISBN13: 9781447403890
Publisher: Pierides Press
Published: May 5 2011
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.08 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

On a volcanic island where the dead were believed to return, Lafcadio Hearn set down one of the earliest and most atmospheric accounts of Caribbean revenant belief ever written in English.

Lafcadio Hearn (1850 - 1904), the Greek-born writer and journalist later celebrated for his work on Japan, spent two years in Martinique in the late 1880s. This essay, drawn from Two Years in the French West Indies (1890), records the island's belief in les revenants, the comers-back, the dead who do not stay buried. With a reporter's precision and a poet's ear, Hearn captures the customs, superstitions, and shadowed atmosphere of Creole Martinique, offering a foundational document in the literature of the returning dead.

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