Tales of the Uncanny

Strange Tales: The Ninefold Formation: A group of seemingly unrelated people each receive a free invitation to celebrate the seventh anniversary of the same travel agency. According to the original itinerary, the tour group is supposed to visit Lake Ailik in Karamay, Xinjiang, but they take a wrong turn along the way and are suddenly caught in an avalanche, bringing their journey to an unexpected halt. On the verge of being trapped with no way out, the female tour guide leads everyone across a suspension bridge, where they unexpectedly spot a strange Gothic mansion in the distance. They are overjoyed, since the mansion seems to offer a way out of their desperate predicament. But on the very night they check in, members of the tour group are killed one after another. A mysterious figure dressed in black and wielding a massive silver-white axe stealthily prowls through the rainy night, a predator hidden in the darkness, ruthlessly cutting down lives. Soon, everyone in the mansion is gripped by fear. Who is the real mastermind, and why are they slaughtering the tour group? As the ninth person escapes an attempted murder, a secret about an ancient totem gradually comes to light. The killer believes that carving the totem into the backs of nine victims and arranging them in a formation will unleash its immense power… Strange Tales: Campus Crisis: Have you ever felt that a pair of red eyes were watching you from the darkness, without you even realizing it? At an ordinary university, several brutal serial murders take place within half a month. Afterward, five female students living in the same dormitory each receive a bizarre letter from the same person, then all die mysteriously on campus. Their causes and manners of death are different. Who is lurking behind them? Rumors even begin to spread that, in the middle of the night, a wolf-headed, human-bodied creature has been seen in the woods behind the women’s dormitory. Students are convinced that a mutated werewolf killed the five women. A series of brutal murders throws the campus into chaos, forcing the university to suspend classes in an attempt to calm the uproar. Yet even after the police get involved, the number of victims continues to rise, and the investigators are completely stumped.