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Zack Davisson is an award-winning translator, writer, and folklorist. He is the author of YUREI: THE JAPANESE GHOST, YOKAI STORIES, and KAIBYO: THE SUPERNATURAL CATS OF JAPAN, and the translator and curator of Shigeru Mizuki’s famous folklore comic KITARO, Matsumoto Leiji’s CAPTAIN HARLOCK, and Go Nagai’s DEVILMAN.

Davisson lectured on translation, manga, and folklore at Duke University, UCLA, University of Washington, Denison University, as well as contributed to exhibitions at the Wereldmuseum Rotterdam and Henry Art Museum. He has been featured on NPR, BBC, and The New York Times, and has written articles for Metropolis, The Comics Journal, and Weird Tales Magazine.

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“En una calurosa y sofocante noche de verano…
Maruyama Ōkyo se despertó de un intranquilo sueño para contemplar a una muerta. Era joven, hermosa y pálida. De una lividez sobrenatural. Se podía atisbar su piel exangüe furtivamente entre los pliegues de su holgado kimono funerario de color blanco hueso. Su descolorida apariencia contrastaba con las estrechas hendiduras de sus ojos negros y el largo cabello azabache que colgaba desgreñado de sus hombros. No tenía pies.”
― Zack Davisson, Yurei: The Japanese Ghost

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