The Pink Skull

[After Gu Long, read Huang Ying] One of the six tales of terror: The Pink Skeleton The original novel for the Hong Kong action film of the same name, directed by Feng Cuifan. Xiao Qi, “the most handsome man under heaven,” was strolling by a lakeside when a fisherman's daughter was captivated by his looks and smiled at him. It was an utterly ordinary incident, but from then on, Xiao Qi began witnessing one terrifying, bizarre, and bloody scene after another. A Rakshasa demoness would appear from time to time to taunt and ambush him, then vanish in an instant amid a sudden cloud of white mist. Before long, Xiao Qi discovered a corpse inside a porcelain statue the Rakshasa demoness had deliberately left behind. The dead woman was Jin Wa, the fisherman's daughter who had smiled at him and caught his eye. The beautiful Xiangyun also fell victim to the Rakshasa woman's murderous hunt, followed by the sisters Du Feifei and Du Xianxian, whom he had long admired...