Why is there always one less seat on the last bus late at night? Why does the mahogany box under the barren grave seep black blood? Why do ghost images captured by old-fashioned cameras always appear at four in the morning?
This collection contains many spine-chilling horror stories, weaving urban legends and rural mysteries into a terrifying web:
Folk custom taboos: the fighting skills of Chumaxian in the old forests of Northeast China, the curse of embroidered shoes in shady marriages in the wilderness, and the bloody birth talisman on the bottom of the coffin when relocating the tomb.
Modern ghosts: film cameras that eat up memories, death buses that never stop, smart speakers that automatically renew suicide notes
The mystery of life and death: the scratches in the ice coffin of the funeral home, the human skin mask in the midnight live broadcast room, the rotten passengers in the elevator spanning thirty years
Each story hides a carefully designed horror mechanism:
⚠️ People photographed by old-fashioned cameras will gradually become transparent
⚠️ Wearing embroidered shoes will surely lead you to the underworld to welcome your bride.
⚠️ The bloody fingerprint oozing from the elevator floor button is a countdown to the living
There are even more surprising connections hidden in the book:
- The town where all the stories take place is named "Misty Mountain"
- Each supernatural object is engraved with the same dark pattern of lotus flowers
- The final chapter reveals that these grievances originated from the mass grave sacrifices during the Republic of China.
**Please confirm before opening this book**:
▣ The doors and windows are locked ▣ The mirror is covered ▣ The recording function of the mobile phone is not turned on
**Because of the resentment between the pages**
**will crawl into reality following your gaze**
