Michael Dylan Foster (editor) is the author of The Book of Yōkai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore and Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yōkai. A professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Davis, he has been the “Yōkai Navigator” since 2022 for the NHK World documentary television series YOKAI: Exploring Hidden Japanese Folklore.
