Classic Horror Lovers discussion

Can you think of some classic novels/stories featuring Eastern beliefs/folklore?

By Eastern, are we talking Chinese/Japanese/Korean ("far east") or Indian/East Asian or Middle East?

Of the top of my head, for Japanese, you've got Lafcadio Hearn -- Kwaidan and In Ghostly Japan. There's also a fantastic movie based on four of the stories from Kwaidan. And there's the collection Rashomon by a Japanese author whose name I can't recall.

For India I don't know of much (which is terrible because Indian folklore is awesome), but there's an excellent story by H. Russell Wakefield, The Gorge of the Churels.

Any and all of those. :)

A few that come to mind

INDIA:
Rudyard Kipling: "The Bridge-Builders", "The Mark of the Beast" (the former is more dark fantasy than horror).
Gemma Files: "Ring of Fire"


ASIA:
as noted by Cathy, pretty much any Lafcadio Hearn fits the bill for sure ("Of A Promise Broken", available here is a particular favorite) although it's worth keeping in mind that he was an American writing (rewriting) Japanese ghost stories.
For an authentic historical folklore classic there's Ueda Akinari's Tales of Moonlight And Rain: A Study And Translation by Anthony H. Chambers.
Another classical writer of supernatural tales is Kyoka Izumi (aka Izumi Kyoka): "The Holy Man of Mount Kōya" and "A Tale of Three Who Were Blind".
Some works by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (aka Akutagawa Ryunosuke) may be of interest, but may fall into "strange tales" area (I haven't read him yet)
Kenzaburō Ōe: "Aghwee The Sky Monster" (a very strange story).
Edogawa Rampo: his stories may also fit the bill but I believe he's more modern in content.


MIDDLE EAST:
William Beckford's Vathek and The Episodes of Vathek (Gothic, as opposed to horror, but you get Ifrits and Djinns and Eblis and hell and burning mummies! I reviewed them here and here).

Thanks so much for the recommendations, Cathy and Shawn. I am very fascinated with the Middle Eastern mythology, particularly djinn.

Sir Richard Burton's tales of Vikram the Vampire.

And of course Lafcadio Hearn's Japanese ghost stories, collected in Kwaidan.

Thanks, DforDoom!