Night Erosion at the Dry Well

An abandoned well that had been dry for thirty years awoke the “thing” sleeping at its bottom when Old Wang happened to peer inside. The knocks and scraping sounds that came from the well each night, the damp black marks spreading across its rim, and the tuft of deathly pale, bluish hair all suggested that the thing below was trying to break through its seal. Trapped in loneliness and fear, Old Wang struggled to fight back with a warding stone, an old musket, and what remained of his reason. But he discovered that the thing at the bottom was no wandering ghost. It was intimately bound to the fate of the Wang family's ancestors, and even to the fate of the entire village...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.