Classical Chinese Ghost Stories in English
Adapted from Liaozhai Zhiyi, Yuewei Caotang and other classical Chinese tales — ghost stories, fox spirits and strange wonders, reimagined for English readers.
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Nie Xiaoqian
Pu Songling
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A young scholar, traveling alone through ruined country, spends a night in a derelict temple and meets the beautiful ghost girl who has been bound by a demon to lure travelers to their deaths. What she asks of him is no more than a grave, and what she gives him in return is a loyalty that outlasts the grave.
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The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl
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An orphaned cowherd, left nothing but an old ox, is told by the beast that the youngest daughter of the Queen Mother of the West comes down to bathe in a heavenly river. He takes her robe, wins her, and they live in perfect love — until the Queen Mother draws the Silver River across the sky and parts them forever, save for one night a year, when the magpies build a bridge. The Qixi legend.
Jingwei Fills the Sea
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The young daughter of Yan Emperor, playing by the Eastern Sea, is drowned by a wave and never returns home. But her will will not suffer the darkness; she is reborn as Jingwei, a small bird patterned like a magpie, who flies back and forth forever carrying twigs and pebbles to fill the sea that took her. A myth of a tiny, unyielding will set against an endless ocean.
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The Mirror That Foretold
Pu Songling
On the night before the autumn exam results, a scholar's wife performs the old rite of listening at the mirror: a mirror set in a sieve, carried by a child, and the first overheard words are the prophecy. What she hears sounds like the language of a man who has fallen, and she grieves through the long dark before she learns, at the door, what the gods meant her to hear.
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Pu Songling
👁 690 reads
A young scholar, traveling alone through ruined country, spends a night in a derelict temple and meets the beautiful ghost girl who has been bound by a demon to lure travelers to their deaths. What she asks of him is no more than a grave, and what she gives him in return is a loyalty that outlasts the grave.
Nie Xiaoqian
Pu Songling
👁 690 reads
A young scholar, traveling alone through ruined country, spends a night in a derelict temple and meets the beautiful ghost girl who has been bound by a demon to lure travelers to their deaths. What she asks of him is no more than a grave, and what she gives him in return is a loyalty that outlasts the grave.
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Pu Songling · New
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A long-form fan adaptation of the classic tale 'Nie Xiaoqian'. A candidate for the civil examination shelters from the rain in a temple with no monks. The east wing has no door, and at night someone reads aloud from the room next to his.
Painted Skin: The Lost Shoe
Pu Songling · New
A long-form fan adaptation of the classic tale 'The Painted Skin'. A licentiate picks up a lost embroidered shoe on the road, and the woman who lost it is already waiting in his study. The evidence in the county court case says she never wore it.
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Nine Years
Pu Songling · New
A fan work based on The Examination for the City God (聊斋志异《考城隍》). A licentiate lies sick in bed and hears hoofbeats no one else can hear. The horse has been waiting at his gate for three days. Someone is coming to take him to an examination—and his mother tells him: if you hear something, do not answer it.
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