Yurei is the Japanese word for ghost.
This book, the third in the authors\' best selling Attack! series, after Yokai Attack and Ninja Attack gives detailed information on 39 of the creepiest Yurei stalking Japan, along with detailed histories and defensive tactics should you have the misfortune to encounter one..
Not every Yurei is dangerous, but they are all driven by emotions so uncontrollably powerful that they have taken on a life of their own: rage, sadness, devotion, a desire for revenge, or even the firm belief that they are still alive.
Yurei are many things, but friendly isn t the first word that comes to mind.
But the similarities with foreign ghosts end there.
Just as in the West, some Yurei haunt a specific person or place; others tend to roam freely.
The general concept is similar to that of ghosts in the Western world: an ethereal essence of a formerly living being that remains after death.
They are the souls of dead people, unable or unwilling to shuffle off this mortal coil.
It s as simple as that.
Yurei is the Japanese word for ghost
