Note: 9 stores and 11 essays(?) Author's note to the first part of the book ("Old Stories"): "The following nine tales have been selected from the 'Shin-Chomon-Shā', 'Hyaku Monogatari', 'Uji-Jūi-Monogatari-Shō', and other old Japanese books, to illustrate some strange beliefs. They are only Curios." These stories are followed by eleven essays. (?)As of 2019, 13 works by Hearn are listed as 10 stories and 3 essays, in the ISFDB publication record as 1902. The fourth part of Kwaidan, "a 1965 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi", is an adaptation of the story "In a Cup of Tea" from this collection. --Wikipedia, "Kwaidan (film)"