Hunting Killers in a World of Strange Customs

One strange incident after another has struck the villages of eastern Henan, and bizarre events keep occurring in mourning halls. The villagers say evil spirits have descended, but forensic pathologist Shao Peng sees through it at a glance: there are no ghosts or gods in this world. Yet the deeper he investigates, the more chilling the truth becomes. These frightening funeral customs aren’t local traditions at all. Someone has brought strange customs from another province across a thousand miles to the Central Plains, using superstition to lay one deadly trap after another. Behind it all, the secretive Old Rites Hall is pulling the strings.

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