The Strange Casebook of the Cangshu Clan is a suspenseful supernatural novel blending folk legends, strange tales, and accessible storytelling. Through the bizarre legends of the protagonist’s family, it recounts a series of uncanny ancient arts handed down through the ages. Its tales include King Wu Ding’s divine axe from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, Jiang Ziya’s enfeoffment of the gods, Qin Shi Huang’s twelve golden men, a winged stranger encountered in a sinkhole during the Northern Song, Zhang San and Li Si, who govern the worlds of the living and the dead, a nine-headed monster by the Luo River, a red-clad ghost battling a lame old woman, and the Cangshu clan traveling through past and present to use their strange arts to punish evil and uphold good in a series of mysterious, eerie incidents.
Strange tales run throughout the novel, told in a measured, captivating style that will leave you astonished, unnerved, and shaken to the core.
