Japan-based illustrator Matthew Meyer has drawn over 500 varieties of yokai―supernatural creatures from Japanese folklore. We ask him about his fascination with the phenomenon of yokai.

Having drawn more than 400 varieties of monsters, Matthew Meyer, 39, published the fourth installment in his yokai encyclopedia series this past summer. Meyer visited Kanazawa, the Ishikawa ...

“One reference we used a lot was Yokai.com, which is a site that a Japanese folklore enthusiast and illustrator Matthew Meyer started to translate and document these stories.” Yokai.com is a ...