Being a storyteller it should not be surprising that I either heard or read over half of the 31 stories in this lovely book in some version or other. I love stories about stories, storytellers and story listeners and have gathered a nice collection myself. Yet an dozen or so of the tales in this book were new and surprising for me. I now have the first horror story about a storyteller in my collection (Hoichi).
The book is well written, easy to read. The stories are mostly short. The production value isn’t too great without illustrations and printed as a paperback. This book deserves a beautiful (expanded) hardcover edition.