Thomas Bauerle has lived in Japan and Asia for 30 years. He teaches Writing and American Culture at Nagoya City University. He graduated from Indiana University, USA with an MFA in Creative Writing. He has published magazine articles and short stories in many publications, including: Brilliant Corners, Avenues and Japanzine, where he was a winner of the “Sudden Fiction” contest. He has had many encounters with the strange and the paranormal in his life. One story he wrote about when he lived in a house that was haunted by a young woman who hanged herself in the 1930s was published in the book, Forty Stories of Japan. After he was presented with this book the Japanese ambassador to New Zealand commented, “It was my favorite story in the book. It reminded me of old Japan.” Two of his true ghost stories were recently published in the International Writers magazine Emanations. The literary blogger Dario Rivarossa mentioned them in his blog “The Best Ghost Stories” as: “Some very fine and true stories.” He continues to pursue the mysterious and the spiritual aspects of the world in which we live.