Tales from Kwaidan is a self-directed illustration project intended as a visual retelling of Masaki Kobayashi’s 1965 Japanese anthology horror film Kwaidan, which is based on four excerpted ghost stories compiled by Lafcadio Hearn in his Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, published in 1904. This project culminated in a matte softcover book/magazine and large format posters. The overarching style was inspired by Victorian gothic art, the shape language of illustrator Rokas Aleliunas, and blackletter typefaces that introduce a modern, European, storybook feel throughout.