Thersa Matsuura
Thersa Matsuura is an American author, folklorist, and podcaster who has lived in Japan for more than thirty-five years. Fluent in Japanese, she researches the lesser-known legends, folktales, superstitions, spirits, beliefs, and strange corners of Japanese culture that inspire both her books and her long-running podcast, Uncanny Japan.
She is the author of The Book of Japanese Folklore* and Legends of Japanese Mythology. Her forthcoming book, Dark Tales from Japan, will be published by Adams Media in 2027. Her other projects include the Yōkai Oracle Deck and consultation on the comic book series Knights vs. Samurai.
Thersa is a graduate of Clarion West, a recipient of the Horror Writers Association’s Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Scholarship, and the author of the fiction collections A Robe of Feathers and Other Stories and The Carp-Faced Boy and Other Tales, the latter nominated for a Bram Stoker Award. Her stories have appeared in magazines, anthologies, and the Asahi English Newspaper.
She shares the stranger, more obscure, and fascinating parts of her research and life in Japan on Uncanny Japan, now part of SpectreVision Radio.
For a longer professional biography, visit the Press Kit page.
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